Eastern Iowa Airport director Marty Lenss named Most Influential Leader for 2025

By: John LohmanRichard Pratt|December 15, 2025

|46 min read

Eastern Iowa Airport director Marty Lenss stands for a portrait in the newest addition to the airport in November. CREDIT RICHARD PRATT

For Marty Lenss, the Corridor Business Journal’s Most Influential Leader for 2025, the passion for flight came at a relatively early age — in the eighth grade, to be exact.

“My interest in aviation would have occurred with my first real commercial flight,” Mr. Lenss said in an exclusive interview with the CBJ. “Many years ago, most kids didn’t go on airplane rides,…

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