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Angela Campbell
301 E Walnut St, Suite 1
Des Moines, Iowa 50309
Tel: 515.288.5008
Fax: 515.288.5010
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Ms. Campbell is the co-founder of Dickey & Campbell Law Firm P.L.C. She graduated from Yale University in
1999 with a double major in anthropology and political science. Subsequently, she graduated magna cum laude
from Boston College Law School in 2002.
Upon graduation, she served as law clerk to Honorable C. Arlen Beam in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
in 2002-2003. From 2003 to 2007, she has served as an assistant federal public defender in Des Moines, Iowa,
representing indigent defendants charged with federal crimes through both the trial and appellate stages of their
cases. While at the federal public defender’s office, Ms. Campbell served as counsel to four detainees being held
at Guantanamo Bay as a result of President Bush’s war on terror.
Ms. Campbell has taught Environmental Law at Boston College, Constitutional Law at Grandview College, Federal Criminal Law at Drake Law School, and Terrorism and the Law at Drake Law School. She has published several articles including:
Could a Chimpanzee or Bonobo Take the Stand?, 8 Animal Law 243 (2002);
The Admissibility of Evidence of Animal Abuse in Criminal Trials for Child and Domestic Abuse, 43 Boston
College Law Review 463 (Mar. 2002); and What United Methodists Should Know About Guantanamo Bay,
Nebraska Messenger (Jan./Feb. 2007).
Additionally, she is a member of the board of directors of the Eighth
Circuit Bar Association. Ms. Campbell is admitted to practice law in Iowa, Massachusetts, and New York. She is also licensed in the Southern District of Iowa, Northern District of Iowa, District of Nebraska, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Raised in Ainsworth, Nebraska, she currently resides in Des Moines with her dog, Gracie. |
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Education:
Boston College Law School
Magna Cum Laude
Yale University, B.A.
Anthropology/Political Science
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General Practice, including:
- Criminal Law
- Immigration
- Civil Rights
- Personal Injury
- Appellate Law
- Real Estate
- Animal Law
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Admissions:
- State of Iowa
- State of New York
- State of Massachusetts
- United States
Supreme Court
- Eighth Circuit Court
of Appeals
- U.S. District Court
Northern/Southern
District of Iowa
- U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska
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Associations and Memberships:
- Iowa State Bar Association, Member
- ISBA Young Lawyers Division
- Eighth Circuit Bar Association Board of Directors
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
Authored:
- Could a Chimpanzee or Bonobo Take the Stand, 8 Animal Law 243 (2002)
- The Admissibility of Evidence of Animal Abuse in Criminal Trials
for Child and Domestic Abuse,
43 Boston College Law Review 463 (Mar. 2002)
- What United Methodists Should Know About Guantanamo Bay,
Nebraska Messenger (Jan./Feb. 2007)
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