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Donald B. Young, J.D.
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 Investment Management & Trust 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, the Illinois State Bar Association, Polk County Bar Association, American Bar Association and the Des Moines Estate Planners, the Financial Planners Association and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. He currently serves on probate and trust, family law, real estate, business and the general practice sections of the Iowa Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. Young has been practicing law in Des Moines since 1999. Jack A. Rogers, J.D. (1946 – 2004)
He was a former president of the Iowa Trust Association, the Des Moines Estate Planning Council, and another professional group specializing in qualified retirement plans, The ERISA Forum. Formerly, Jack was also a licensed agent of Equitable of New York and E.Q. Financial Consultants where he worked extensively with small businesses and professionals in their investment and financial planning. In 1995, Jack graduated from the American Bankers Association prestigious Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the University of Delaware, in Newark, Delaware. There he distinguished himself by graduating in the top ten percent of his class. His thesis, “The Growing Threat of Non-Banks to Traditional Banking in the United States,” was selected and placed in the libraries at the University of Delaware, the ABA library in Washington, D.C., and the business library at Harvard University in Boston. Jack has had various legal articles published in The Michigan Bar Journal, Commerce Clearing House Tax Guide for Qualified Plans, and The Writer. Jack worked for Davis Life Brokerage and Davis Financial Services Holding, Inc., as coordinator of their advanced concepts programs and as a legal resource to their licensed agents around the United States. He conducted seminars and continuing education courses around the country. Early in 2004, Mr. Rogers and Mr. Young started their joint law practice, which catered to the needs of individuals and small businesses and their owners. Jack died in August, 2004. Jessica L. Rogers, J.D.
Jessica has participated in several trainings, seminars and committees in the area of probate, family and juvenile law. She currently is a member of the American Bar Association, the Iowa State Bar Association, the Young Lawyer’s Division of the ISBA, the Polk County Bar Association, and the Polk County Women Attorneys. In 2005, Jessica was admitted to the Iowa State Bar and joined Young & Rogers Law as an associate. She is in a general practice including but not limited to adoptions, family law, and bankruptcy.
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Don Young is an attorney admitted to the practice of Law by the Supreme Courts of Iowa and Illinois. 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 practioner in Moline, Illinois.
Jack Rogers was an attorney licensed in the states of Iowa and Illinois. He graduated from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana and received his Juris Doctorate from DePaul University in Chicago. He has worked over twenty-five years in the field of banking, investments, and insurance, having extensive experience in the area of Trust law and administration. At Bankers Trust Company in Des Moines, Iowa, he was a member of senior management, secretary to the board of directors, and head of their Trust Department with total assets exceeding five billion dollars.
Jessica Rogers is an attorney licensed in the state of Iowa. She was born in Illinois, but grew up in Iowa. She obtained her B.A. in 1994 from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa as well as receiving an M.A. in 1999 from Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated and received her Juris Doctorate in May 2005 from University of Denver in Colorado. During her last year in law school, Jessica was a visiting student at Drake University Law School. While at Drake University, she took courses in health and family law. She completed an internship with the Polk County Attorney’s Office in the Juvenile Division. She was able to have a clerkship with Young & Rogers Law prior to graduation.