President and CEO of the Iowa Bankers Association Adam Gregg will deliver the keynote address at Central College’s Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 10th at 10 am in Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium.

A 2006 Central graduate, Gregg served as Iowa’s lieutenant governor from 2017 to 2024 and has held numerous public service roles. From 2014 to 2017, he was a state public defender, overseeing Iowa’s indigent defense system, which managed over 150,000 cases annually. At age 31, he became the youngest department head in Iowa Governor Terry Branstad’s administration.

Gregg also served as a senior advisor to Governor Branstad and Lt. Governor Reynolds, where he championed education and healthcare reform, helped enact the largest tax cut in Iowa history and advanced key initiatives such as the Connect Every Iowan broadband initiative and the Home Base Iowa veteran’s initiative. He advised policy for several state agencies, including the Iowa Economic Development Authority, Iowa Utilities Board and Iowa Workforce Development. Before entering public service, Gregg practiced law with BrownWinick in Des Moines.

At Central, Gregg double majored in political science and history, interned with the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Congress and the United Kingdom Parliament, played four years of Dutch football, and graduated first in his class. He later earned his law degree with high honors from Drake University Law School, where he was an Iowa Supreme Court Scholar and on the “Drake Law Review.” Central honored Gregg with its Distinguished Alumnus Award for his work as the lieutenant governor of the State of Iowa.

For more information on Commencement, visit central.edu/commencement.