{{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Nate Willems | image = Nathan Willems - Official Portrait - 84th GA.jpg | state_house = Iowa | district = 29th | term_start = January 12, 2009 | term_end = January 14, 2013 | predecessor = Ro Foege | successor = Dan Zumbach | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1979}} | birth_place = Anamosa, Iowa, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = Democratic | spouse = Margret Willems | children = 1 daughter | education = Georgetown University (BS)<br>University of Iowa (JD) | website = {{url |1=https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=83&personID=6576/ |2=State House website}}<br>{{url|natewillems.com|Campaign website}} }} '''Nathan Willems''' is an American lawyer and politician who represented the 29th District in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2009 to 2013. He is a Democrat. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (2001) and a Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa College of Law (2007).<ref><span class="plainlinks">[http://www.house.iowa.gov/willems/?page_id=3 ''Biography'']</span> of Nathan Williams. Retrieved December 19, 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/2012/general/canvsummary.pdf |title=2012 General Election Canvass Summary |publisher=Iowa Secretary of State |accessdate=2015-01-24 |page=44}}</ref>
In September 2011, Willems served on Iowa House committees for Education (ranking member), Labor, and Ways and Means. He also sat on the Education Appropriations Subcommittee. He was elected in 2008, defeating Republican opponent Emma Nemencek and was re-elected in 2010.
Willems was a field organizer for Congressman Leonard Boswell's 1998 reelection campaign. He managed two Iowa House races in 2000. In 2001 he worked on the unsuccessful United States House campaigns of John Norris and Julie Thomas. He was a legislative clerk for Iowa Representative Ro Foege, whom he later succeeded in the Iowa House. He was a regional director for Howard Dean's Iowa caucus campaign. He worked one summer in the legal department of Iowa Union of Operating Engineers Local 49 before taking his current job as an attorney at Rush & Nicholson, P.L.C., practicing labor and employment law.
Willems is active in the Linn County Democratic Central Committee, the Lisbon Lincoln Highway Lions Club, the Mount Vernon Athletic Boosters, and is First Vice President of the Iowa Federation of Teachers.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/16/17294/4758 |title=MyDD :: I Am Running for the Iowa House |accessdate=2009-03-17 |first=Nate |last=Willems |authorlink=Nathan Willems |date=March 16, 2008}}</ref>
In 2025, Willems announced he was running for attorney general, challenging incumbent Republican Brenna Bird.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/07/democrat-nate-willems-launches-campaign-for-iowa-attorney-general-brenna-bird-2026/83392661007/ | title=Democrat and labor lawyer Nate Willems launches Iowa attorney general campaign | website=The Des Moines Register }}</ref>
==Electoral history== <nowiki>*</nowiki>incumbent {{Compact election box no change begin}} {{Compact election box no change |election_title =Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2008 |election_note =District 29 |election_ref =<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sos.state.ia.us/elections/results/2008GeneralResults.html|title=November 4, 2008 General Election Results|publisher=Iowa Secretary of State|accessdate=2011-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408054656/http://www.sos.state.ia.us/elections/results/2008GeneralResults.html|archive-date=April 8, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> |turnout_votes =18,015 |result =hold |loser_party =Republican Party of Iowa |winner =Nate Willems <!-- no incumbent --> |winner_party =Iowa Democratic Party |winner_votes =10,524 |winner_percent =58.4 |candidate2 =Emma Nemecek |candidate2_party =Republican Party of Iowa |candidate2_votes =7,469 |candidate2_percent =41.5}} {{Compact election box no change |election_title =Iowa House of Representatives elections, 2010 |election_note =District 29 |election_ref =<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/elections/2010/gensummaryorr.pdf|title=Official Results Report, General Election held November 2, 2010|publisher=Iowa Secretary of State|date=2010-12-16|accessdate=2011-09-19|page=70}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |turnout_votes =14,862 |result =hold |loser_party =Republican Party of Iowa |winner =Nathan Willems* |winner_party =Iowa Democratic Party |winner_votes =7,487 |winner_percent =50.4 |candidate2 =Shawn Graham |candidate2_party =Republican Party of Iowa |candidate2_votes =6,658 |candidate2_percent =44.8}} {{Compact election box no change end}}
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==External links== {{Commons category}}<!--for current and future use if material is uploaded--> {{Portal|Iowa}} * [http://www3.legis.state.ia.us/ga/member.do?id=7495 Representative Nathan Willems] ''official Iowa General Assembly site'' *[http://www.house.iowa.gov/willems/ Nathan Willems State Representative] ''official constituency site'' * {{CongLinks | congbio= | votesmart=103354 | fec= | congress= }}<!-- Links formerly displayed via the CongLinks template: * [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/uniquecandidate.phtml?uc=9437 Financial information (state office)] at the National Institute for Money in State Politics * -->
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