Wilson announces candidacy for Henry County Attorney

WINFIELD — Attorney Becky Wilson announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for Henry County Attorney this week.

“Henry County needs change and transparency in the county attorney’s office,” said Wilson in a press release. “The County Attorney should be supporting law enforcement agencies within the county — currently, that relationship is broken, leaving officers unheard and unsupported. The top prosecutor in Henry County should be working to go after criminals, not local law enforcement.”

Wilson said that Darrin Stater, the current county attorney, has lost the trust of Henry County voters — going after local law enforcement like a blue state prosecutor.

Wilson, who grew up in rural Iowa, was one of six children of a farmhand and a factory worker, according to the press release. She learned her work ethic from her hard-working parents; her first job was walking beans to earn enough money to buy clothes for school when she was 9 years old.

Wilson graduated salutatorian of her high school class, the press release says. She completed an associate degree in legal assistant studies at the age of 40 before finishing her undergraduate degree at Iowa State and law school at Southern University School of Law.