Nathan Willems

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::summary American politician ::

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Field	Value
name	Nate Willems
image	Nathan Willems - Official Portrait - 84th GA.jpg
state_house	Iowa
district	29th
term_start	January 12, 2009
term_end	January 14, 2013
preceded	Ro Foege
succeeded	Dan Zumbach
birth_date
birth_place	Anamosa, Iowa, U.S.
party	Democratic
spouse	Margret Ann Willems
children	Ava Grace (17)
education	Georgetown University (BS)
University of Iowa (JD)
website

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| name = Nate Willems | image = Nathan Willems - Official Portrait - 84th GA.jpg | state_house = Iowa | district = 29th | term_start = January 12, 2009 | term_end = January 14, 2013 | preceded = Ro Foege | succeeded = Dan Zumbach | birth_date = | birth_place = Anamosa, Iowa, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = Democratic | spouse = Margret Ann Willems | children = Ava Grace (17) | education = Georgetown University (BS) University of Iowa (JD) | website =

Nathan Willems is a lawyer and politician who represented the 29th District in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2009 to 2013. He is a Democrat. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (2001) and a Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa College of Law (2007).

In September 2011, Willems served on Iowa House committees for Education (ranking member), Labor, and Ways and Means. He also sat on the Education Appropriations Subcommittee. He was elected in 2008, defeating Republican opponent Emma Nemencek and was re-elected in 2010.

Willems was a field organizer for Congressman Leonard Boswell's 1998 reelection campaign. He managed two Iowa House races in 2000. In 2001 he worked on the unsuccessful United States House campaigns of John Norris and Julie Thomas. He was a legislative clerk for Iowa Representative Ro Foege, whom he later succeeded in the Iowa House. He was a regional director for Howard Dean's Iowa caucus campaign. He worked one summer in the legal department of Iowa Union of Operating Engineers Local 49 before taking his current job as an attorney at Rush & Nicholson, P.L.C., practicing labor and employment law.

Willems is active in the Linn County Democratic Central Committee, the Lisbon Lincoln Highway Lions Club, the Mount Vernon Athletic Boosters, and is First Vice President of the Iowa Federation of Teachers. |url=http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/16/17294/4758 |title=MyDD :: I Am Running for the Iowa House |accessdate=2009-03-17 |first=Nate |last=Willems |authorlink=Nathan Willems |date=March 16, 2008}}

In 2025, Willems announced he was running for attorney general, challenging incumbent Republican Brenna Bird.

Electoral history

incumbent |election_title =Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2008 |election_note =District 29 |election_ref = |turnout_votes =18,015 |result =hold |loser_party =Republican Party of Iowa |winner =Nate Willems |winner_party =Iowa Democratic Party |winner_votes =10,524 |winner_percent =58.4 |candidate2 =Emma Nemecek |candidate2_party =Republican Party of Iowa |candidate2_votes =7,469 |candidate2_percent =41.5}} |election_title =Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2010 |election_note =District 29 |election_ref = |turnout_votes =14,862 |result =hold |loser_party =Republican Party of Iowa |winner =Nathan Willems |winner_party =Iowa Democratic Party |winner_votes =7,487 |winner_percent =50.4 |candidate2 =Shawn Graham |candidate2_party =Republican Party of Iowa |candidate2_votes =6,658 |candidate2_percent =44.8}}

References

References

1. "2012 General Election Canvass Summary". [[Iowa Secretary of State]].
2. [http://www.house.iowa.gov/willems/?page_id=3 ''Biography''] of Nathan Williams. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
3. "Democrat and labor lawyer Nate Willems launches Iowa attorney general campaign".
4. "November 4, 2008 General Election Results". [[Iowa Secretary of State]].
5. (2010-12-16). "Official Results Report, General Election held November 2, 2010". [[Iowa Secretary of State]].

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