Meredith Rich-Chappell was admitted to the Iowa Bar in September 2000 after graduating from University of Iowa College of Law, ranked sixth in her class of 240 with highest distinction.

Rich-Chappell is admitted to practice in the State of Iowa, the Federal District Courts for the Northern and Sothern Districts of Iowa, and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Before joining Lederer Weston Craig PLC, she practiced as an Assistant Johnson County Attorney from 2003 – 2013, where she prosecuted a wide range of cases including felony drug offenses and homicides. She served as the first prosecutor for the Johnson County Drug Treatment Court, founded in 2007. From 2013-2016, she served as a staff attorney at Kids First Law Center, representing children in high-conflict dissolution and custody cases.

Since 2010, Rich-Chappell has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Iowa College of Law, serving as the Judicial Externship Faculty Supervisor, overseeing students working as externs for state and federal judges and teaching the Judicial Externship Seminar. Since 2017, she has served as a hearing adjudicator for the University of Iowa Office of Civil Rights Compliance, conducting hearings on alleged Title IX and Code of Conduct violations involving students, staff and faculty.

Rich-Chappell is a member of the Iowa Bar Association, the Linn County Bar Association, and the Iowa Defense Counsel Association. She was a member of the Iowa County Attorneys Association from 2003 – 2013, the National Association of Drug Court Professionals from 2010 – 2013, the Sixth Judicial District Drug Treatment Court steering committee from 2006 – 2013, the Mason Ladd Inn of Court from 2004 – 2006 and the Iowa State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division from 2000 – 2005. She also served as a member of the Iowa Commission on Continuing Legal Education from 2010 – 2016, which advised the Iowa Supreme Court on matters related to Iowa attorneys’ continuing legal education requirements.

Rich-Chappell earned her bachelor’s degrees, history and political science, from University of Iowa with highest distinction in both. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Linda K. Neuman of the Iowa Supreme Court from 2000 – 2001 and for the Honorable Harold D. Vietor of the Southern District of Iowa from 2000 – 2003.