Larrie Hindman

Larrie Hindman
Degree: 
Agricultural Business
Year Graduated: 
1959

Larrie Hindman came to Iowa State from his family’s farm near Meservey, Iowa in 1955. He joined the Ag Business club and the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, in which he held several offices, including Co-chair of the fraternity’s 50th anniversary at Iowa State. Summers were busy for Hindman as well, working in a management trainee program at a large cooperative in Iowa Falls in 1957, and in sales at Rath Packing Company in Waterloo, Iowa in both 1958 and 1959.

After his father suffered a heart attack in the fall of 1958, Hindman left Iowa State to go home and work on the family’s Cerro Gordo farm.

“I had not been home for any extended period of time for three years, so I made nightly trips to the hospital to discuss with my father a list of “where is it” items. Two days after arriving home, we were filling the silo and I learned, among other matters, to change the header on the combine for soy beans and to mount the corn picker on our John Deere tractor (combines were not then used to pick corn).”

Following his father’s recovery, Hindman returned to Iowa State for the 1959 winter and spring quarters. That spring, he was inducted into Gama Sigma Delta, the honorary society of agriculture before graduating in May.

Hindman entered the University of Iowa Law School in the fall of 1959 (a year or two behind another Iowa State alum and future professor, Neal Harl). The following summer, under a research grant from the Kellogg Foundation, he served as the field investigator of highway farm tractor accidents for the Department of Agricultural Medicine of the College of Medicine at the University of Iowa.

In his senior year, he and his partner won the annual Supreme Court Day Argument before the full Iowa Supreme Court at the annual Supreme Court Day at the law school. He received his Juris Doctor of Law with Distinction in August 1962.

Following graduation, Hindman and his wife, Jeannie, moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he became an associate of the law firm of Morrison & Hecker LLP (now Stinson Leonard Street LLP) and was elected equity partner in 1969. He specialized in real estate law, with an emphasis on commercial real estate financing, representing lenders for shopping centers, office parks, apartments and hotels in Missouri and Kansas. In addition, he represented purchasers of large beef feed lot operations in Kansas and as special counsel for lenders on large poultry broiler operations in Missouri, Arkansas, and Alabama.

He was elected by his peers to the Best Lawyers in America, and was elected to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, and the Lenders Council Group of the American Land Title Association. In 2017 he received the Albert Nelson marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the practice of real estate law, and was on the committee involved in the establishment of the national standards for land title surveys. Hindman received from the Missouri Bar the privilege of the title of Senior Counselor in recognition of his long and distinguished career as a member of the Bar of the State of Missouri.

Hindman retired in 2000, and now lives with wife, Jeannie, in Naples, Florida.

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