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John F. McKinney, Jr. was born in Hannibal, Missouri. He was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1965 after graduating from Drake University (B.A. 1962, and J.D. 1965). He is a member of the Public Finance department and of counsel to the Firm. He was the City Solicitor for the City of Des Moines from 1965 to 1971. He has served as former general counsel to the Iowa Rural Water Association. He also served as general counsel to the South Iowa Area Detention Service Agency which is a ten county intergovernmental agency headquartered in Fairfield and the Heartland Group, a five county intergovernmental agency headquartered in Ottumwa. He was a member of a special finance advisory committee for the Iowa Department of Environmental Quality and has served on the faculty of the National Bond Attorneys' Workshop. He is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL); the Iowa Municipal Attorneys' Association and is a member of the Urban, State and Local Governmental Law Section of the American Bar Association. Return to attorney list Email: JMcKinney@Ahlerslaw.com NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC The determination of the need for legal services and the choice of a lawyer are extremely important decisions and should not be based solely upon advertisements or self-proclaimed expertise. This disclosure is required by rule of the Supreme Court of Iowa. Memberships and offices in legal fraternities and legal societies, technical and professional licenses, and memberships in scientific, technical and professional associations and societies of law or field of practice does not mean that a lawyer is a specialist or expert in a field of law, nor does it mean that such lawyer is necessarily any more expert or competent than any other lawyer. Warning! E-mail messages are not necessarily confidential. Please do not send any message you consider to be confidential or sensitive in nature, until you receive information from us on how to encrypt your message. Please know that the act of sending electronic mail to our firm will not of itself create an attorney-client relationship. Unless you are already a client of our firm, any electronic communication will not be privileged, and may be disclosed to other persons.