Rob Sand

Robert Sand (born August 12, 1982) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 33rd Iowa State Auditor since 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Sand was assistant attorney general of Iowa from 2010 to 2017. In 2018, he ran for state auditor, defeating Republican incumbent Mary Mosiman. After considering a run for governor of Iowa in 2022, Sand opted to run for reelection. Sand was reelected in 2022, becoming the only statewide elected Democrat in Iowa. Early life Sand is from Decorah, Iowa. His mother, Leslie, worked as a physical therapist while his father, Kevin, was a doctor. While he attended Decorah High School, he spent two years lobbying community leaders in Decorah to build a skate park. Sand graduated from Decorah High School in 2001. Sand enrolled at Brown University, where he was awarded a Harry S. Truman Scholarship. While he was in college, he took a semester off to intern in the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, a member of the Democratic Party from Iowa. He made his first political donation to Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, but missed the Iowa caucus because he was modeling menswear in Milan. He also modeled in Paris. Sand graduated from Brown with a bachelor's degree in political science in 2005. Sand enrolled at the University of Iowa College of Law. He earned his Juris Doctor in 2010. In law school, he was both president of the Iowa Student Bar Association and an editor-in-chief of a law journal. He caucused for Barack Obama' presidential campaign in 2008.