A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represented District 54 in the southeastern Twin Cities metropolitan area.

[1] He attended St. John's University in Collegeville and Minneapolis Community and Technical College, where he graduated from the Paramedic program.

[5] On November 8, 2017, MinnPost published an online story in which three women, including state Rep. Erin Maye Quade, accused Schoen of sexually harassing them.

[8] On November 14, 2017, a Minnesota Senate staff member, Ellen Anderson, alleged that Schoen had sent her an unsolicited photo of male genitalia via Snapchat in 2015.

[9] After initially denying the incidents, but concluding he could no longer serve his district effectively, Schoen resigned on December 15, 2017.