Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger

Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
Assumed office
February 16, 2016
Appointed by Barack Obama
Preceded by James E. Gritzner
Personal details
Born Rebecca Leigh Goodgame
(1975-07-11) July 11, 1975
Clearwater, Florida
Political party Republican Party[1]
Education Georgetown University (B.S.F.S.)
Yale Law School (J.D.)

Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger (born July 11, 1975)[1] is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa and former Iowa state Judge.

Early life and education

Ebinger received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree in 1997 from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She received a Juris Doctor in 2004 from Yale Law School.[2]

Career

She began her legal career with the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Iowa, serving as a Special Assistant United States Attorney, from 2004 to 2006. From 2006 to 2008, she served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Joseph Melloy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. From 2009 to 2011, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Iowa. From 2012 to 2016, she served as a State District Judge in Iowa's Judicial Election District 5C.[3][4][2]

District court service

On September 15, 2015, President Obama nominated Ebinger to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, to the seat vacated by Judge James E. Gritzner, who took senior status on March 1, 2015.[5] She received a hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on October 21, 2015.[6] On November 5, 2015 her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.[7] She was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 83 to 0 on February 8, 2016.[8] She received her commission on February 16, 2016.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 MyLife.com profile
  2. 1 2 3 "Ebinger, Rebecca Goodgame - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
  3. ↑ "President Obama Nominates Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to Serve on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa". White House. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Gov. Branstad appoints Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger District Court Judge". KJAN. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate". 15 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary". www.judiciary.senate.gov.
  7. ↑ "United States Senate Judiciary Committee: Results of Executive Business Meeting – November 5, 2015" (PDF).
  8. ↑ "U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 114th Congress - 2nd Session". www.senate.gov.
Legal offices
Preceded by
James E. Gritzner		 Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
2016–present		 Incumbent
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