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Brenna Bird
American politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brenna Bird (née Findley; born 1976)[1] is an American lawyer and politician who has served as Iowa Attorney General since 2023. She is a member of the Republican Party.
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Early life and education
Bird grew up on a farm near Dexter, Iowa. She earned her bachelor's degree from Drake University and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 2001.[2]
Career
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Bird spent seven years working for U.S. Representative Steve King (Jan 2003 - May 2010), rising to Chief of Staff.
In the 2010 elections, Bird ran for Attorney General of Iowa. She lost to incumbent Tom Miller by 11 percent.[3] She considered running for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2014 elections, but opted against running.[4]
Bird served as counsel to Governor Terry Branstad. She was "county attorney in Fremont County, Audubon County"[5] and became county attorney for Guthrie County, Iowa in 2018.[6] In 2019, after hearing "six weeks of evidence, including testimony from Branstad and others,"[7] a jury ruled that Branstad and Bird (then known as Brenna Findley) had discriminated against an employee in 2010-2011 because of his sexual orientation, and awarded him $1.5 million,[8] but the verdict was overturned by the Iowa Supreme Court in 2021.[7]
She ran against[9] Miller in the 2022 Iowa Attorney General election.[10] She narrowly defeated Miller, who had served ten four-year terms as attorney general.[11][12]
On April 9, 2023, Bird's office ordered a pause in the state's practice of paying for emergency contraception or abortions for rape victims.[13]
Bird's office also filed or joined more than a dozen multi-state lawsuits against the Biden administration in 2023 and at least a dozen more in 2024.[14]
Bird's office also joined a suit, Texas v. Becerra,[15] in the United States District Court Northern District Of Texas Lubbock Division asking the court to "vacate a federal rule prohibiting discrimination against disabled people in health care settings, [and] to declare a 1973 law known as Section 504 unconstitutional.[14][15]
On July 2, 2025, Bird confirmed that she is not running for Governor and instead is running for re-election.[16]
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Personal life
Bird lives with her husband, Bob Bird,[17] and their son on her family farm in southeastern Guthrie County.[18] Bird is a member of the All Saints Church.[19]
Electoral History
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