Mary Wolfe
Clinton
Contact: 563-243-4652
Mary Wolfe was born in 1963 in Washington DC. Her father John grew up on a farm in Lost Nation. Her mother Pierrette’s family immigrated from Switzerland when she was young and she grew up in NYC. The two met while working on JFK’s presidential campaign when they were both students at Georgetown University.
The family moved to Iowa in 1966. John practiced law in Davenport for a time and then served on Governor Hughes’s staff in Des Moines for year before being hired by Model Cities program. In 1976 he became a public defender in Clinton. Mary and her seven siblings attended North Catholic Elementary School and Mater Dei High School.
Mary graduated from high school in 1981. During the next few years she travelled the country, taking college courses at Georgetown and Loyola. She received her Bachelors in English from the University of Iowa in 1989. In the Spring of 1992, Mary graduated from UofIA law school, passed the bar exam, and returned to Clinton to work with her father at his firm. Her son John Steger, was born in 1994.
Mary is a former board member of the IAJ’s criminal defense section, from its inception in 2004 through Fall of 2009. Her firm in Clinton handles primarily family law, criminal defense, and Chapter 7 bankruptcy. She is the only woman attorney in Clinton in private practice. She obtained targeted small business status last Fall. She is currently a board member of the Clinton County Justice Coordinating Council.
Mary is an active member of the local YMCA, and plans on running in the annual Brry-Scurry race coming up in early February. Her son John attended Prince of Peace for elementary school and is currently a freshman at Clinton High School.
Wow, James, you are very uniformed about Planned Parenthood. When I was in my 20’s, with no insurance, not pregnant, and not seeking to have an abortion, I went to Planned Parenthood for a medical exam in Clinton, Iowa. Abortion was not mentioned and I received excellent health care. I was even a practicing Catholic at the time!!! I was so lucky to have this affordable health care available to me, when I was no longer insured by my parents since I had graduated from college.
Maybe as a “Grand Knight” of the Knights of Columbus you should worry more about how your fellow Clintonians are dealing with the sexual abuse they endured at the hands of practicing priests in Clinton. Hopefully, our Creator is watching the Catholic Church as well! (See bishopaccountability.org). Mary, you are doing a great job in the Iowa House!!