Kristina M. Stanger

Kristina M. Stanger is an attorney and shareholder with Nyemaster Goode, P.C. in Des Moines, Iowa, the state’s largest firm, and focuses her practice on creditors’ rights and bankruptcy. Her experience spans such industries as agriculture, retail, commercial real estate, bioenergy, health care, construction and manufacturing. Ms. Stanger advocates for secured and unsecured creditors in a variety of contexts, including cases under chapters 7, 11 and 12 of the Bankruptcy Code, out-of-court workouts, acquisitions, state court actions and receiverships. She is a nationally known speaker and member of a number of esteemed boards and organizations, such as the American Bankruptcy College, ABI, the Iowa State Judicial Nomination Commission and CREW Iowa. In addition to her legal practice, Ms. Stanger is a combat-experienced and decorated U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel. She recently retired after serving more nearly 25 years as an enlisted soldier, commander and operational planner for state, national and international operations. Ms. Stanger was a member of the 2016 Next Generation Class for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ), is a 2018 ABI “40 Under 40” honoree, and chairs IWIRC’s Midwest Network. She is admitted to practice in all state, federal and bankruptcy courts in Iowa and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Following law school, she interned for Hon. Ronald E. Longstaff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa and clerked for the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in 2014. Ms. Stanger graduated with distinguished honors from the 185th Military Regional Training Institute’s Officer Candidate School in 2000, received her B.A. magna cum laude from Central College the same year, and received her J.D. with high honors from Drake University in 2006, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif, worked on the Drake Law Review and was active in its moot court program.