Lyness announces she will not seek re-election as Johnson County Attorney
Janet Lyness announces she will not seek re-election as Johnson County Attorney. Her current term concludes Dec. 31, 2022.
Lyness graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1989. After a clerkship for the Seventh Judicial District Court, she joined the Johnson County Attorney’s Office in 1990 as an Assistant County Attorney. In 2006, she was the first woman elected Johnson County Attorney. She was re-elected in 2010, 2014 and 2018. She is currently in the final year of her fourth four-year term.