• The judiciary of Iowa is a branch of the Government of Iowa that interprets and applies the laws of Iowa, to ensure equal justice under law, and to provide...
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    The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts...
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    Iowa (/ˈaɪ.əwə/ EYE-ə-wə) is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east...
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    Judiciary, informally known as the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of 21 U.S. senators whose role is to oversee the Department of...
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    House Committee on the Judiciary, also called the House Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. It is...
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    Chuck Grassley (category Republican Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives)
    Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Aging Committee. On September 17, 1933, Charles Ernest Grassley was born in New Hartford, Iowa. He is the son of Ruth...
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  • The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States...
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  • Matthew McDermott (category Justices of the Iowa Supreme Court)
    has served an associate justice of the Iowa Supreme Court since 2020. In 2024, he wrote the majority ruling on the Iowa Supreme Court that implemented...
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  • widely from those of the federal government, and from one another. In practice, however, every state has adopted a division of its judiciary into at least...
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  • Thomas D. Waterman (category University of Iowa College of Law alumni)
    Thomas D. Waterman (born 1959) is a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court. Waterman was born in Davenport, Iowa. He graduated from Bettendorf High School and...
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  • Edward Mansfield (judge) (category Justices of the Iowa Supreme Court)
    Edward M. Mansfield (born January 12, 1957) is a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court. Mansfield grew up in Massachusetts. His mother was a refugee from...
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  • standing subcommittee within the United States House Committee on the Judiciary. It was previously known as the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship...
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  • Constitution and Limited Government is one of six subcommittees of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary. Until 2019 it was called the Subcommittee...
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  • Christopher McDonald (jurist) (category University of Iowa College of Law alumni)
    associate justice of the Iowa Supreme Court since 2019. McDonald was born in Bangkok, Thailand to a Vietnamese mother and an American father of Scots-Irish...
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  • The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety was one of six subcommittees within the Senate Judiciary Committee during...
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  • David N. May (category Justices of the Iowa Supreme Court)
    (born May 23, 1971) is an American lawyer from Iowa who has served as an associate justice of the Iowa Supreme Court since 2022. May grew up in Missouri...
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  • the attention of a legislator, who may call upon the United States House Committee on the Judiciary to investigate. After a review of its findings, the...
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    Jack Whitver (category Presidents of the Iowa Senate)
    Human Resource, Judiciary and State Government committees. Whitver was born in Knoxville, Iowa. He played college football for Iowa State University...
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    The number of women in the United States judiciary has increased as more women have entered law school, but women still face significant barriers in pursuing...
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  • Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights is one of eight subcommittees within the Senate Judiciary Committee...
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    Jane L. Kelly (category Iowa lawyers)
    defender in the Northern District of Iowa, in 1994 and served as the supervising attorney in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa office, from 1999 to 2013. On January...
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    justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and is the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal judiciary. Article...
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    appointments, excluding appointments to the District of Columbia judiciary. The total number of Trump Article III judgeship nominees to be confirmed by...
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    ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1981. He was a Democratic floor manager for the successful passage of the Comprehensive Crime...
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    later that day. On April 19, 2019, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler issued a subpoena for the release of the full unredacted report. On May 3, 2019...
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    Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, consists of the...
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    United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary. They hear appeals of cases from the United...
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  • Susan Christensen (category Chief Justices of the Iowa Supreme Court)
    1962) is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Iowa Supreme Court since 2018 and as the chief justice since 2020. Christensen...
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    Amy Sinclair (category Presidents of the Iowa Senate)
    Education, and Judiciary, Government Oversight, and Rules and Administration. She also serves on the Legislative Council and the Violence in Iowa Study Committee...
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  • Dana Oxley (category University of Iowa College of Law alumni)
    associate justice of the Iowa Supreme Court. Oxley obtained a Bachelor of Arts in accounting from the University of Northern Iowa in 1990. She earned...
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