Biography
Brenna Bird is Iowa's Republican Attorney General, seeking a second term after first being elected in 2022. Her office has recently sued OpenAI and TP-Link.[1][3][4][5]
Bird was born and raised on an Iowa farm and graduated from Drake University in 1997 and the University of Chicago Law School in 2001.[2][5] She lives in rural Dexter.[5]
Her career included private law practice, work in the Iowa Governor's Office and the U.S. House of Representatives, where she was chief of staff to Rep. Steve King, and service as an adjunct professor at the University of Iowa College of Law.[2][5] She served as Fremont County Attorney and then, from 2018, as Guthrie County Attorney, a total of six years as a prosecutor.[2][5]
Bird took office as attorney general in January 2023.[5]
- 1.Iowa Attorney General election, 2026 · Ballotpedia · 2026-10-19 Reference
- 2.Brenna Bird · Ballotpedia Reference
- 3.Attorney General Brenna Bird Announces Lawsuit against OpenAI for Deceiving Iowa Parents and Iowans about the Safety of ChatGPT · Iowa Attorney General · 2026-10-14 Official record
- 4.Attorney General Brenna Bird Sues TP-Link Systems for Violating Iowa Consumer Fraud Act and Allowing China Access to Iowans' Routers · Iowa Attorney General · 2026-10-06 Official record
- 5.About Attorney General Brenna Bird · Iowa Attorney General's Office · 2026-10-19 Official record
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.
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