AMES, Iowa – Kitt Tovar has joined the Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation as a legal consultant. She will focus on areas of agricultural law including lease law, fence and property law, environmental and natural resource law, regulatory law and farm policy.
Prior to joining CALT, Tovar worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the animal production department at the University of Lleida in Catalonia, Spain, and interned with the international trade department for the National Pork Producers Council in Washington, D.C. While in law school, Tovar served as the associate editor for the Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, clerked for Brick Gentry, P.C., and worked at the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation.
Tovar earned her bachelor’s degree in animal science from Iowa State University and her J.D. with honors from Drake University, while completing certificates in food and agricultural law and legislative practice.
Tovar can be reached by email at kwtovar@iastate.edu or by phone at 515-294-5608.
The Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation at Iowa State University was created by the Iowa Board of Regents in 2006. CALT provides timely, objective, unbiased information to producers, professionals and agribusinesses concerning the application of important developments in agricultural law and taxation, and serves as a primary source of professional educational training in agricultural law and taxation.