Iowa Court Reporters Association

Linda Dona, immediate past president of ICRA, is currently a broadcast closed captioner for VITAC. She has worked as a captioner for the past 2 ½ years. Prior to becoming a broadcast captioner, Linda worked as an official reporter in state court in the First Judicial District and Sixth Judicial District of Iowa and also as a federal realtime official reporter in U.S. District Court in Detroit, Michigan. Linda has freelanced in Omaha, Nebraska, taught court reporting at the Nebraska College of Business, and worked as a CART writer for the Michigan Association of the Deaf.

Linda enjoys her work with ICRA, as it’s a way for her to give back to a profession which she finds so rewarding and continually challenging. In her free time, Linda enjoys spending time with her husband and friends, traveling, gardening, cooking, reading, and doing volunteer work.