Magistrate Stephan H. Small, Fairfield, was appointed to serve Jefferson County in 2015. He earned he bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1981 and received his law degree from King Hall School of Law at the University of California, Davis, in 1984. He is a member of the Iowa State Bar Association and the State Bar of California (inactive) and has been in private practice in Iowa since 1987 in his hometown of Fairfield. He is married.