Edward Mansfield | |
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Associate Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court | |
Assumed office February 23, 2011 | |
Appointed by | Terry Branstad |
Preceded by | Michael Streit |
Personal details | |
Born | Massachusetts,U.S. | January 12,1957
Political party | Republican |
Education | Harvard University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Edward M. Mansfield (born January 12,1957) is a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court. [1]
Mansfield grew up in Massachusetts. [2] His mother was a refugee from the Soviet Union. [3] He graduated from Harvard College,magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa,in 1978 and Yale Law School in 1982. [4] [5] During law school,Mansfield worked at the Boston office of Sullivan &Worcester and at the Los Angeles office of O'Melveny &Myers. He declined offers from both firms to join them permanently. [5]
After law school Mansfield clerked for Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before entering private practice. [1] From 1983 to 1996,he practiced at Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie in Phoenix,Arizona,where he became a partner in 1988. [5] He then moved to Des Moines for his wife's career and was a litigator at Belin McCormick P.C. from 1996 to 2009. [6] [3] In 1997,Mansfield started teaching as an adjunct professor at Drake University. He has also served as the chairperson of the board of directors of Goodwill Industries of Central Iowa. [1]
Mansfield was appointed by Chet Culver to the Iowa Court of Appeals in 2009. [1]
Mansfield was one of three justices appointed by Governor Terry Branstad in 2011. [7] In November 2010,Iowa voters had removed all three justices seeking reelection in response to the court unanimously legalizing same-sex marriage in Varnum v. Brien . [8]
In 2012,Mansfield authored an opinion for the court which found a dentist did not commit gender discrimination when,at the insistence of his wife,he fired a dental assistant to whom he was sexually attracted. [9] [10] In 2016,Mansfield dissented when the Court found that the Iowa Constitution categorically prohibited life without parole for juveniles who committed first degree murder. [7]
In September 2016,Mansfield was named as a possible nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. [11]
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