Brenna Bird
Brenna Bird is an American lawyer and politician who has served as Iowa Attorney General since 2023. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Early life and education
Bird grew up on a farm near Dexter, Iowa. She earned her bachelor's degree from Drake University and her J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 2001.Career
Bird spent seven years working for U.S. Representative Steve King, rising to Chief of Staff.In the 2010 elections, Bird ran for Attorney General of Iowa. She lost to incumbent Tom Miller by 11 percent. She considered running for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2014 elections, but opted against running.
Bird served as counsel to Governor Terry Branstad. She was "county attorney in Fremont County, Audubon County" and became county attorney for Guthrie County, Iowa in 2018. In 2019, after hearing "six weeks of evidence, including testimony from Branstad and others," a jury ruled that Branstad and Bird had discriminated against an employee in 2010-2011 because of his sexual orientation, and awarded him $1.5 million, but the verdict was overturned by the Iowa Supreme Court in 2021.
She ran against Miller in the 2022 Iowa Attorney General election. She narrowly defeated Miller, who had served ten four-year terms as attorney general.
On April 9, 2023, Bird's office ordered a pause in the state's practice of paying for emergency contraception or abortions for rape victims.
Bird's office also filed or joined more than a dozen multi-state lawsuits against the Biden administration in 2023 and at least a dozen more in 2024.
Bird's office also joined a suit, Texas v. Becerra, in the United States District Court Northern District Of Texas Lubbock Division asking the court to "vacate a federal rule prohibiting discrimination against disabled people in health care settings, to declare a 1973 law known as Section 504 unconstitutional.
On July 2, 2025, Bird confirmed that she is not running for Governor and instead is running for re-election.