The original McGinn Law Firm was founded by Albert McGinn in 1914. In 1936 Albert's wife, Kathleen McGinn, took the Iowa Bar Examination without ever having attended law school. She passed and was sworn in as lawyer that year. At the time she was the mother of ten children. Edmund A. McGinn, son of Albert and Kathleen, joined the law firm in 1952. He was followed by his brother , Joseph F. McGinn, in 1957.
