Iowa Lawyer David Funkhouser is New Member of ABA Board of Governors

CHICAGO, Aug. 9, 2005 – David E. Funkhouser of Mason City, Iowa, managing member of Brown, Kinsey, Funkhouser & Lander, P.L.C., today took office for a three-year term as a member of the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association at the close of the association’s Annual Meeting in Chicago.

As governor of the ABA’s 12th District, Funkhouser will represent Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa and New Mexico. The board meets at least four times yearly to oversee administration and management of the association.

Funkhouser has more than 35 years experience as a general practitioner and negotiator with predominant concentration on civil trial practice. He also has extensive practice as a mediator, and has received mediation training through the Iowa State Bar Association and the American Academy of ADR Attorneys.

Funkhouser has been a member of the ABA since 1974 and has served as the Iowa state delegate in the association’s policy-making House of Delegates for the past nine years. He is also a member of the Standing Committee on Solo & Small Firm Practitioners and the American Bar Foundation.

In his home community, Funkhouser has been very active in state bar organizations, having served as president, vice-president and on the Board of Governors of the Iowa State Bar Association and the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers. He has served on several boards and commissions of the Iowa Supreme Court. He is a member of numerous other bar organizations and has been honored by election as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Iowa American Bar Foundation.

In 2002 Funkhouser received the Award of Merit of the Iowa State Bar Association, which is annually awarded to one attorney for contributions to the profession and home community. Funkhouser received both his Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Business Administration degrees from the University of Iowa.

With more than 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law in a democratic society.