Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger | |
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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 July 11,1975 Clearwater,Florida,U.S. |
Education | Georgetown University (BSFS) Yale University (JD) |
Rebecca Leigh Goodgame Ebinger (born July 11,1975) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa and former Iowa state judge. [1]
Ebinger received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service in 1997 from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. [1] Before law school,she worked at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. [1] She began law school at William &Mary Law School,where she was first in her class,before transferring to Yale Law School,from which she graduated in 2004. [1] At Yale,she won the Potter Stewart Prize for winning the Morris Tyler Moot Court. [1] She also worked at the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut and for the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of General Counsel. [1] Ebinger is married to Lou Ebinger,an attorney in Des Moines. [2]
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. [1] 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. [1] 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 Northern District of Iowa,primarily specializing in white-collar crime. [1] When she worked in Cedar Rapids from 2004 to 2011,she coached the University of Iowa College of Law's moot court team. [1] From 2011 to 2012,she was an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of Iowa and worked in the appellate unit. [1] From 2012 to 2016,she served as a state district judge in Iowa's Judicial Election District 5C after being appointed by Governor Terry Branstad. [1]
On September 15,2015,President Barack 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 assumed senior status on March 1,2015. [3] She received a hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on October 21,2015. [4] On November 5,2015 her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote. [5] On February 8,2016,she was confirmed by the Senate by a 83–0 vote. [6] She received her commission on February 16,2016. [7]
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