DES MOINES– Gov. Kim Reynolds today (Friday) announced her appointment of Melinda Wicks as a district associate judge in Judicial District 3B. Judicial District 3B includes Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Ida, Monona, Plymouth, Sioux, and Woodbury counties.  Wicks fills a vacancy created following the retirement of the Hon. Todd A. Hensley.

Wicks, of Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, serves as a magistrate in Woodbury County and as a deputy county attorney in the Dakota County Attorney’s Office, State of Nebraska. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Nebraska and law degree from Washburn University of Law.