Brenna Bird

Brenna Bird (née Findley; born 1976) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as Iowa Attorney General since 2023. She is a member of the Republican Party.

Bird grew up on a farm near Dexter, Iowa. She earned her bachelor's degree from Drake University and her J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 2001.

Bird spent seven years working for U.S. Representative Steve King (Jan 2003 - May 2010), rising to Chief of Staff.

In the 2010 elections, Bird ran for Attorney General of Iowa. She lost to incumbent Tom Miller by 11 percent. She considered running for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2014 elections, but opted against running.

Bird served as counsel to Governor Terry Branstad. She was "county attorney in Fremont County, Audubon County" and became county attorney for Guthrie County, Iowa in 2018. In 2019, after hearing "six weeks of evidence, including testimony from Branstad and others," a jury ruled that Branstad and Bird (then known as Brenna Findley) had discriminated against an employee in 2010-2011 because of his sexual orientation, and awarded him $1.5 million, but the verdict was overturned by the Iowa Supreme Court in 2021.

She ran against Miller in the 2022 Iowa Attorney General election. She narrowly defeated Miller, who had served ten four-year terms as attorney general.

On April 9, 2023, Bird's office ordered a pause in the state's practice of paying for emergency contraception or abortions for rape victims.

Bird's office also filed or joined more than a dozen multi-state lawsuits against the Biden administration in 2023 and at least a dozen more in 2024.