Government counsel / Eighth Circuit

Southern District of Iowa

The attorneys who appeared for the government in this court's agency-delay suits, read from each suit's attorneys of record. It is a record of who has appeared, not the office's staff list.

Read from the attorneys of record of 17 of the 26 agency-delay suits in the docket record for this court; 7 of them name government counsel. Only the 17 suits with a public docket on CourtListener can be read, and a suit names no government counsel until an attorney appears and that public copy is refreshed afterwards, so older suits, recent suits and quiet districts are thin. Updated November 14, 2026 at 1:17 a.m. CT. How this list is made.

How this court's decisions and suits came out. This court's suits. Every district's attorneys (CSV).

U.S. Attorney's Office

AttorneyCityTelephone and emailSuitsOpen nowFiled in the past yearLatest suit filed
Kristin M. HerreraDes Moines, IA(515) 473-9300
kristin.herrera@usdoj.gov
202April 7, 2026
Jason Ray Lawrence (FORMER)Des Moines, IA(515) 246-7873
jason.lawrence2@usdoj.gov
200September 27, 2022
Amy LichtDes Moines, IA(515) 473-9300
amy.licht@usdoj.gov
100February 20, 2025
Andrew H. KahlDes Moines, IA(515) 473-9311
andrew.kahl@usdoj.gov
100April 21, 2025
Rachel J. Scherle (FORMER)Des Moines, IA(515) 473-9310
rachel.scherle@usdoj.gov
100April 21, 2025

Justice Department, office not printed

These dockets print a Justice Department email address for the attorney and no office, so the attorney may belong to this district's U.S. Attorney's Office or to Washington.

AttorneyCityTelephone and emailSuitsOpen nowFiled in the past yearLatest suit filed
Stephen Michael PezziWashington, DC(202) 305-8576
stephen.pezzi@usdoj.gov
100December 3, 2024

Suits counts the agency-delay suits in the docket record in which the attorney is counsel of record; the past-year count runs back one year from the newest suit in the record. Some dockets name an office in an attorney's place, usually before a suit is assigned ("AUSA - Chicago"); those are listed last, marked as office entries, with the office's own mailbox. Telephone numbers and email addresses are the ones printed on the public docket of the attorney's latest suit; confirm them on that docket before relying on them. An attorney who has moved on stays listed, and the date of the latest suit shows how current an entry is. Nothing here says how any attorney's suits ended. Tell us about a correction.