Mandy Easter has been a Law Librarian at the State Library since May 2000 and also began working as a consultant in 2016. She’s been a state agency librarian, an academic librarian, a public library director, an employee at a regional library, and has worked in different capacities at several public libraries. She really enjoys helping librarians, trustees and city officials identify, understand and apply library-related law. She's the author of the Library Law FAQs and is passionate about her work on the Iowa Access to Justice Commission. She was the recipient of the Iowa Library Association's 2021 Citation of Merit Award. Born and raised in Muscatine, she has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy. Her 1984 Master’s degree in Library and Information Science is from the University of Iowa.