Profession Attorney | Name Rebecca Ebinger | |
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Full Name Rebecca Leigh Goodgame Alma mater Georgetown University B.S.F.S.
Yale Law School J.D. Education Yale Law School, Georgetown University | ||
Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger (born 1975) is a former Iowa Judge and is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
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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.
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.
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. She received a hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on October 21, 2015. On November 5, 2015 her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote. She was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 83 to 0 on February 8, 2016. She received her commission on February 16, 2016.