You've either made the decision to go to law school or are tempted by the thought. The law provides intellectual challenge, special opportunities for public service, and the chance to work with all sorts of people. I hope that you will give careful consideration to the University of Iowa College of Law as your entry point into the law. Iowa has been recognized consistently as one of the nation's best. Its faculty is intellectually lively and devoted to excellence in teaching, creative and challenging scholarship, and service to local, state, national and international communities. Your fellow students will be another source of learning, and Iowa has an ambitious, intelligent and humane student body.

I encourage you to think about joining us in Iowa City. Read any number of books set in Iowa City by alumni of the world-famous Iowa Writers' Workshop. If sports is your interest, watch an Iowa football or basketball game. Listen to music with roots in Iowa. As Gertrude Stein wrote, "Iowa means much." I hope that you will conclude that Iowa is the right place to commence your life in the law and that it will mean as much to your life as it has to mine.

Dean Carolyn Jones