Donald Young J. D.

Don Young is an attorney admitted to the practice of Law by the Supreme Courts of Iowa. He attended Denison University in Granville, Ohio and received his B. A. degree from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. He secured his Juris Doctorate from the College of Law, University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois. Mr. Young is a graduate of the College of Financial Planning, Denver, Colorado, and practiced as a CFP professional. He served as an intern for the United States Attorney, Southern District, Illinois while in law school. He served as an Assistant States Attorney in Rock Island County, Illinois and worked as an attorney for the Acquisition Branch of the Real Estate Division of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, Rock Island, Illinois. He practiced law as a sole practitioner in Moline, Illinois.
He has worked in the area of wills, trusts, estates, probate and trust administration for over thirty years as an attorney in private practice and as an attorney in trust banking. He was the manager of the trust departments of The Rock Island Bank & Trust Company, Rock Island, Illinois, and the Union Bank and Trust company, Ottumwa, Iowa. He served as Vice President of Trust for Norwest Banks located in Bettendorf, Iowa, Fort Dodge, Iowa and Sioux City, Iowa. He then served as Vice President and Manager for Norwest Investment Management & Trust responsible for the trust offices in Sioux City, Mason City and Fort Dodge, Iowa. He retired from Norwest Bank Iowa, N. A., as a Vice President in the Investment Management & Trust Division in Des Moines, Iowa.
Mr. Young is a former president and current member of the Iowa Trust Association. He is a member of the Iowa State Bar Association, Polk County Bar Association,and the Des Moines Estate Planners and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. He currently serves on probate and trust and the general practice sections of the Iowa Bar Association.
Mr. Young has been practicing law in Des Moines since 1999.