Schmidt looks back on lengthy legal career

By: 
Rob Maharry

Longtime Grundy Center lawyer Kirby Schmidt was fresh out of Iowa State teaching agriculture classes at Webster City High School when he began hearing of cases involving the construction of Interstate 35 and how the diagonal stretch of road between Highway 20 and Hampton would affect farms in the area. Before long, he’d become fascinated with law, took the LSAT and got admitted into the University of Iowa Law School. After a 43-year legal career spent entirely in Grundy Center, Schmidt is now transitioning into retirement and met with The Grundy Register to reflect on his long and successful stint here.
 
“There was an opening in this law firm with Don Kliebenstein and TJ Heronimus. I interviewed for that position and chose to come here,” Schmidt said in his office at Heronimus, Schmidt, Allen, Schroeder and Geer. “I was very fortunate to work with those two attorneys.”
           
As a small town, general practice attorney, Schmidt has done a little bit of everything (including real estate, probates, taxes and dissolutions, among other areas) during his tenure, but some of his early cases working on behalf of livestock entities and litigating to change rules related to feeder pigs and feeder cattle, some of which were appealed to the state supreme court, are still fresh in his mind decades later. 
           
“Kirby’s work ethic is legendary,” Grundy County Attorney and Partner Erika Allen said. 
 
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