Interim Director Dale Woolery
Branstad names Dale Woolery Interim Director at ODCP
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In December 2011, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad appointed Dale as Interim Director of the Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy (ODCP). Dale has served as ODCP’s Associate Director for the last several years, after joining the agency in 1994. He works with public and private sector leaders at the local, state and federal levels on improving drug control policies and programs. In addition to coordinating drug enforcement and substance abuse prevention and treatment efforts throughout Iowa, the Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy administers federal drug and crime control grants.
Dale assists the non-profit Partnership for a Drug-Free Iowa with the State’s largest public service campaign to raise awareness, shape anti-drug attitudes and promote healthy behavior. He is a past-president and volunteer board member of the Ankeny Substance Abuse Project—or ASAP—a non-profit community anti-drug coalition in his hometown of Ankeny, Iowa. Dale is also volunteer member of the national Partnership for a Drug-Free America’s Parent Advisory Board.
Dale holds a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia. Prior to joining the Iowa Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy, where he graduated from the Institute for Public Leadership, Dale worked nearly 18 years in radio, many of them as Station Manager and News Director of KRNT in Des Moines. During that time, he also served as Iowa Coordinator of the international Radio-Television News Directors Association and taught as an adjunct professor of journalism at Drake University in Des Moines.
Dale is married, a father of three, and a grandfather of two. He enjoys trying to play golf and is a past coach, umpire and adult leader in Youth Soccer, Little League Baseball and Boy Scouts.