Nicole Merrill

Nicole Merrill is an attorney at Walker, Billingsley & Bair in Ankeny, Iowa. Her practice includes personal injury, workers’ compensation, and estate planning. Her official profile identifies injury matters involving car, motorcycle, and truck accidents, dog bites, and wrongful death. She brings experience in private practice, public service, and administrative hearings to legal issues affecting individuals, workers, and families throughout Iowa.

Nicole graduated from Drake Law School in 2008. After completing law school, she began practicing at a small firm in Chariton, Iowa, primarily handling juvenile, family, and criminal law matters. Her education was followed by direct experience representing people in difficult circumstances. That early work gave her a practical introduction to client advocacy and legal problems involving family relationships, individual rights, and court proceedings.

Nicole later worked as an attorney with the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, providing pro bono representation to survivors and their families in family and immigration matters. She became a civil rights specialist at the Iowa Civil Rights Commission in 2013. In 2015, she began serving as an administrative law judge in Iowa Workforce Development’s Unemployment Appeals division and became Chief Administrative Law Judge in 2019.

Nicole Merrill is admitted in Iowa and federal district court in Iowa. Her professional memberships include the Iowa Association for Justice, American Bar Association, Iowa Bar Association, and Polk County Bar Association. Her experience combines client representation with reviewing disputes in an administrative setting. That background supports a measured approach to injury and planning matters, with attention to the facts, the applicable legal process, and the client’s individual concerns.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Walker, Billingsley & Bair
• Member, Iowa State Bar Association
• Member, Iowa Association for Justice
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Polk County Bar Association

Licensed State

• Iowa

Education

• Drake Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)

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