Lee A. Schott has served as co-pastor of Polk City United Methodist Church in Iowa since 2003. A 2007 graduate, with honors, of Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri, Lee was ordained an elder in The United Methodist Church in 2009. Prior to entering full-time Christian ministry, Lee worked as an attorney at a private law firm in Cleveland, Ohio, and in-house at a life insurance company in Des Moines, Iowa. Lee is a graduate of the University of Iowa (1985, Honors in English, with highest distinction) and Harvard Law School (1988, cum laude).