IOWA CITY — An outgoing regent long has been a director for a national furniture company but failed to publicly disclose the relationship before its local distributor signed a major no-bid contract with the University of Iowa last year, records show.
Manufacturing executive and Republican donor Mary Andringa abruptly resigned Wednesday from the Iowa Board of Regents, one year into her six-year term. She said she underestimated how much time it would take to serve on the board, which governs the state’s three public universities.