Jean Z. Dickson

Jean is from Northfield, Minnesota. A graduate of Luther College in 1989 and the University of Iowa College of Law in 1992, she joined the Betty firm in 1993. She was a judicial law clerk for the Iowa Court of Appeals from 1992 to 1993. Jean specializes in workers' compensation defense and appeals. She represents employers and carriers in both Iowa and Illinois. She has handled dozens of judicial reviews in both states. She has appeared before the Iowa Court of Appeals, the Iowa Supreme Court, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Illinois Appellate Court, Third District, on appeals ranging from family law to products liability and not limited to workers' compensation.

Jean was on the Statewide Nominating Commission from 2005 to 2011, and was involved in the nomination process of a number of judges currently serving on either the Iowa Court of Appeals or the Iowa Supreme Court. She served two terms on the Iowa Board of Law Examiners from 2012-2019. She served two terms on the Pleasant Valley Community School District Board of Directors from 2013 - 2021. She was elected to the Scott County Board of Supervisors in November 2022. She also sits on the Bettendorf Civil Service Commission. She is currently a member of the Iowa State Bar Association and Iowa Association of Workers' Compensation Lawyers, Inc. She was president of the Scott County Bar Association in 2001 to 2002, and president of the Iowa Association of Workers' Compensation Lawyers, Inc, in 2011-2012. Her leadership with the Iowa Association of Workers' Compensation Lawyers included spearheading the revision of the life and remarriage expectancy tables back in 2005-06. More recently, she co-chaired the committee which worked with the Iowa Workers' Compensation Commissioner to develop administrative rules to go with the recent legislative changes which took effect July 1, 2017

Jean is married to Greg Vens. Together, they have six children and one grandchild.