About Jerry
Jerry Lutkenhaus has practiced law for five decades. He earned a B.S. in history and English from Iowa State University in 1966 and completed his J.D. at the University of Iowa in 1973. Those academic years set the stage for a long career split between public service and private practice.
Early in his career he gained courtroom and client-facing experience in Iowa and then Virginia. He joined the Virginia State Bar in 1974 after graduating law school, and his name appears on the Iowa bar rolls from 1973. By 1978 he was serving as managing lawyer for the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society. That role placed him in the center of community legal work and involved overseeing cases, supervising staff, and handling a steady caseload of civil matters for low-income clients.
In 1984 he opened his own firm, the Law Office of Jerry Lutkenhaus. He has maintained that practice for decades. The office handled matters that reflect his professional affiliations: Social Security disability representation, workers' compensation, and trial work. Colleagues and clients have relied on his steady presence in those fields over many years.
Certification as a Social Security Representative through the National Organization of Social Security Representatives is part of his professional profile. He also holds memberships in bar and trial organizations in both states where he is licensed. Those memberships include the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association and the Virginia Workers Compensation Inns of Court, where he has been active since the 1990s and 2015 respectively. He has belonged to the Richmond and Henrico bar associations for decades, and he remains listed with the Iowa State Bar Association.
Lutkenhaus has combined private practice with periodic teaching and community engagement. He served as an adjunct professor at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in the early 2000s. He lectured for the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association in the 2010s and chaired a committee at the West Richmond Rotary from 2013 to 2015. These activities reflect a career that includes both courtroom work and public-facing roles.
His work history shows continuity rather than headline-grabbing litigation milestones. He moved from legal aid leadership into long-term private practice and sustained memberships in local and state legal organizations. He continues to be active in professional groups that center on trial practice, workers' compensation, and Social Security representation. He currently focuses his practice on Social Security disability claims and workers' compensation matters.
