College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

James A. Hopson Alumni Volunteer Award
The Iowa State University Alumni Association established this award in 1999 to recognize ISU graduates, age 40 and under, who demonstrate early volunteer leadership in the ISU Alumni Association or alumni-related activities and who are members of the ISU Alumni Association.

Matthew M. Craft
2000
BA Political Science
LaPorte City, Iowa

In his six short years since graduating from Iowa State, Matt Craft has earned a law degree and begun practicing in the Cedar Valley. He's become an ISU Alumni Ambassador and board member for the ISU Alumni Association Club of Black Hawk County. He's serving on the boards of the Volunteer Center for Cedar Valley, the La Porte City Historical and FFA Ag Museum, and My Waterloo Days. He has become president of the La Porte City Chamber of Commerce.

All that was more than enough to earn Craft distinction in 2005 as one of the Cedar Valley's "Top 20 Under 40," an honor his nominators for the James A. Hopson Alumni Volunteer Award agree is well-deserved. Craft's enthusiastic desire to get involved in his community and in advancing Iowa State University, they say, goes above and beyond what most young lawyers just starting their careers would be willing to tackle.

Craft, who served as Iowa State's Government of the Student Body president during his student days, is not only a success as a volunteer and ISU supporter. Upon earning his J.D. from the University of Iowa in 2003, Craft received the Iowa State Bar Association prize, which is presented annually by U of I law faculty and the Iowa Bar Association to the graduating law student who is most likely to succeed as a future member of the bar. The former editor of Iowa Law Review is now an attorney with Randall and Nelson, PLC, juggling a heavy workload with volunteer efforts such as writing letters to accepted Iowa State students from the area and planning events for My Waterloo Days, an annual celebration in the community which neighbors La Porte City.

Matthew Craft

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