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 James C. Hanks was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended
the University of Iowa and received his B.A. in 1972 and his J.D., with high distinction, in 1975. He is a member
of Phi Beta Kappa and was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship in 1972 by the University of Iowa. He was admitted
to the Iowa Bar in 1975 and to the Nebraska Bar in 1976.
He is a member of the Firm’s Local Government Law and Employment Law and General Litigation departments. He is
a member of the American Bar Association where he serves on the membership committee for the Section of State and
Local Government and as a member of the Section of Labor and Employment Law. He is also a member of the Iowa State
Bar Association and its Section of Labor and Employment Law and the Nebraska State Bar Association. He is past
chair of the National School Boards Association Council of School Attorneys, past chair of the Iowa Council of
School Board Attorneys, and past chair of the Iowa State Bar Association Labor Law Committee.
He has served as lecturer on education or employment law issues for the University of Iowa College of Law, the
National School Boards Association, the National Organization for Legal Problems in Education, the American Bar
Association, the National Association of State Boards of Education, and the Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Michigan
Councils of School Attorneys.
He is author of “Employment at Will,” NSBA Council of School Attorneys Annual Proceedings, 1984; “Fair Labor Standards
Act Amendments of 1985," Inquiry and Analysis, NSBA Council of School Attorneys, May, 1987; “Ethics and the
School Board Lawyer,” NSBA Council of School Attorneys Annual Proceedings, 1995; and editor and contributing author
of "School Violence," American Bar Association, Section of State and Local Government, 2004. |
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