Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger

Rebecca 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]

Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
Incumbent
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.
Political party	Republican
Education	Georgetown University (B.S.F.S.) Yale Law School (J.D.)

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.[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]

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.[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 Terry Branstad.[1]

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.[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] She was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 83 to 0 on February 8, 2016.[6] She received her commission on February 16, 2016.[7]

References

1. "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 8, 2018.
2. Gartner, Michael (March 11, 2015). "Judge List is Cut to 11; Eric Branstad Buys a House". Cityview. Archived from the original on June 8, 2016.
3. "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate". 15 September 2015.
4. "United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary". www.judiciary.senate.gov.
5. "United States Senate Judiciary Committee: Results of Executive Business Meeting – November 5, 2015" (PDF).
6. "U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 114th Congress – 2nd Session". www.senate.gov.
7. "Ebinger, Rebecca Goodgame – Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.

External links

• Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
• Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger at Ballotpedia