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| Contact Info | Telephone: 319-337-4193
Fax: 319-337-2396
http://www.mellonandspies.com
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| University | University of Iowa, B.B.A., with distinction, 1972 |
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| Law School | University of Iowa, J.D., with distinction, 1975 |
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| Admitted | 1975, Iowa, U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1987, U.S. Supreme Court; 2000, U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois |
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| Memberships | Johnson County (Secretary, 1979-1981; Vice President, 2004-2005; President, 2005-2006), Iowa State (Member, Criminal Law Litigation Section; Board of Governors) and American (Member, Committees on: Ethics and Professionalism; Trial Evidence; Trial Practice; Criminal Law Litigation Section) Bar Associations; American College of Trial Lawyers (Member, Iowa State Committee); Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers (President, 2011-2012; Vice President, 2010-2011; Board of Governors, 2004—); Iowa Association for Justice; American Association for Justice; American Judicature Society; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; American Inns of Court (Master; President, Dean Mason Ladd Inn, 1995-1996). |
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| Born | Blue Grass, Iowa, October 8, 1950 |
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| Biography | Phi Eta Sigma; Omicron Delta Kappa. Judicial Magistrate, Sixth Judicial District of Iowa, 1978-1983. Instructor, Trial Advocacy, University of Iowa College of Law, 1996—. Fellow: Iowa State Bar Foundation. |
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| ISLN | 903511832 |
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