Next Friday, 15 applicants will be interviewed for an upcoming vacancy on the Iowa Supreme Court with the retirement of Justice David Wiggins on March 13. Three area attorneys have submitted applications. Forty-six-year-old Mindy Larsen Poldberg is the first of the 15 candidates to be screened next week. She has been the Director of Government Relations for the Iowa Corn Growers Association since 2005 and lives in Panora. Poldberg is a 1998 graduate of Drake University Law School and previously served as Director of Legislative Affairs for the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and as an associate attorney with the Des Moines law firm of Beving, Swanson and Forrest. Guthrie County’s Attorney, 43-year-old Brenna Bird, is slated to be interviewed March 6. She was elected in 2018 and took the seat on Jan. 2, 2019. She has been a Strategic Advisor with the LS2group since 2015, a public relations, public affairs and marketing firm in Des Moines, and runs a private practice, Bird Law Offices in Dexter. Bird is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law and previously served as legal counsel and acting Chief of Staff for former Gov. Terry Branstad. Carroll native and Kuemper High School graduate, 42-year-old Matthew McDermott, will be interviewing for the second time this year. McDermott was a finalist in the January appointment to fill the Supreme Court vacancy after the death of Justice Mark Cady. McDermott received his law degree from the University of California Berkeley School of Law and is an attorney and President of the law firm of Belin McCormick of Des Moines. He was previously an associate attorney for a New York firm and a political science instructor at the University of California. McDermott received the Iowa State Bar Association’s Young Lawyer Division Award of Merit in 2013.