Born in Creston, Iowa
I was born in Creston, Iowa on August 10, 1953. My dad was farmer and mom a teacher.
In December, 1981, I graduated from Drake University Law School in Des Moines, Iowa. I took and passed the Iowa bar exam in January, 1982. We moved to Ottumwa, Iowa where I began to practice law.
In 1984, I moved and began a private, solo practice in Marshalltown, Iowa.
1n 1987, I was appointed as a Judicial Magistrate in Marshall County. I served in that role until 2007.
In 2008, I was diagnosed with tongue cancer. The doctors at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota saved my life.
Education
- Drake University, BS, 1977.
- Drake Law School, JD, 1981
Career
- Private Practice – 1982 – 2016
- Judicial Magistrate – 1987 – 2007
Iowa Support Master
In 1994, while working on an Excel spreadsheet in an effort to solve the complexities of creating a document required to be filed in dissolution cases, a computer programmer walked into my office. His name was Michael Alft. We would form a partnership known as Alft & Wilson Publishing and by April, 1994, we were producing a software program known as “Iowa Support Master.”
The program is in use by over 2,000 judges, lawyers, law clerks, paralegals and secretaries throughout Iowa and in neighboring states.
LawTrust Software
In 2004, I created a trust account management software program. I needed it to manage my own law office trust account. It worked so well, I decided to share it with lawyers around the globe.