IOWA ACADEMY - Key Persons

Darren A. Lee

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • NADN Executive Staff Member

Kathy Vazqueztell Roster

Job Titles:
  • Administrator
  • NADN Executive Staff Member

Louis A. Lavorato

Louis A. Lavorato received numerous awards in recognition of his achievements and service to the judicial branch over his almost 30 years of judicial work. A few of those included the following: In 1985, he received the Judicial Achievement Award from the Trial Lawyers Association of Iowa; in 1994, he received the Alumni of the Year Award from the Drake University Law School; in 1996, he received the Award of Merit from the Iowa Judges Association; in 2003, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Drake University. MEMBERSHIPS: Iowa State Bar Association Former member of the Uniform Jury Instructions Committee of the Iowa State Bar Association Polk County Bar Association Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals Former member and officer of what was formally known as the Iowa Trial Lawyers Association

Michael J. Pitton

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor
  • Attorney
Michael Pitton has been an experienced arbitrator since 1997, is AV-rated, admitted to practice in Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois, and is included in the nationwide Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. He has also been a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of Iowa College of Law for more than twelve years, where he teaches several arbitration courses to upper level law students. He has also practiced law since 1977 in the areas of litigation and alternative dispute resolution, which has included trials, appeals, arbitrations, mediations and administrative hearings in several state and federal courts, ADR proceedings and agency hearings, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Alternative Dispute Resolution Attorneys and is a co-founding member of Iowa Arbitration Association LLC d/b/a Iowa Arbitrators.

Rose-Anne Raies

Job Titles:
  • NADN Executive Staff Member
  • Accounts ( Semi - Retired )

Zoltan Nemeth

Job Titles:
  • IT Manager
  • NADN Executive Staff Member