Meet Angela Campbell
Angela Campbell, Managing Member | angela@iowajustice.com
Ms. Campbell is the co-founder of Dickey, Campbell, & Sahag Law Firm P.L.C. Ms. Campbell is an experienced trial and appellate advocate. Most notably, she tried, argued, and won the U.S. Supreme Court case Burrage v. United States. She has argued at the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Iowa Supreme Court and the Iowa Court of Appeals in both civil and criminal appeals. Some of her civil appeals have resulted in changes in law in Iowa, and she has had numerous criminal appeals which resulted in criminal convictions being reversed.
Ms. Campbell is an accomplished trial attorney in both civil and criminal trials, having taken over 50 cases to jury trial, and several more to bench trial. Ms. Campbell is also a Cellebrite Certified Physical Analyst and a Cellebrite Certified Operator and has testified a as cell phone forensics expert. She has served as a legal expert in malpractice and postconviction cases and has testified in front of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Ms. Campbell graduated from Yale University in 1999 with a double major in anthropology and political science. Subsequently, she graduated magna cum laude from Boston College Law School in 2002. Upon graduation, she served as law clerk to Honorable C. Arlen Beam in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals from 2002-2003. From 2003 to 2007, she served as an assistant federal public defender in Des Moines, Iowa. Ms. Campbell also formerly served as counsel to four detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay.
Ms. Campbell has taught Federal Criminal Law at Drake Law School, Terrorism and the Law at Drake Law School, Environmental Law at Boston College, and Constitutional Law at Grandview College. She has spoken at numerous continuing legal education seminars across the country on the topics of mobile forensics, trial technology, False Claims Act litigation, Supreme Court advocacy, the Iowa indigent defense crisis, drug offenses resulting in death, and numerous other criminal defense topics. She has published or contributed to several legal articles.
Ms. Campbell was formerly a voting member of the Practitioners’ Advisory Group to the United States Sentencing Commission, the Criminal Justice Act Panel Representative for the Southern District of Iowa, a liaison to the Tribal Issues Advisory Group to the United States Sentencing Commission, a member of the Iowa Jury Instruction Committee, and member of the Iowa Criminal Rules Committee. Ms. Campbell is admitted to practice law in Iowa, Massachusetts, and New York. She is also licensed in the Southern District of Iowa, Northern District of Iowa, District of Nebraska, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.