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James E. Gritzner - Wikipedia

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James E. Gritzner

Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
Incumbent
Assumed office March 1, 2015
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
In office 2011–2015
Preceded by	Robert W. Pratt
Succeeded by	John Alfred Jarvey
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
In office February 19, 2002 – March 1, 2015
Appointed by	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Charles R. Wolle
Succeeded by	Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger

Personal details
Born	James Edward Gritzner (1947-11-19) November 19, 1947 (age 77) Charles City, Iowa, U.S.
Education	Dakota Wesleyan University (BA) University of Northern Iowa (MA) Drake University (JD)

James Edward Gritzner (born November 19, 1947) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.

Education and career

Gritzner was born on November 19, 1947, in Charles City, Iowa.^[1] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech from Dakota Wesleyan University in 1969, and a Master of Arts degree in verbal behavior from the University of Northern Iowa in 1974. He initially planned to be a professional choral director and competed in debate.^[2] From 1967 to 1976, Gritzner worked as a radio and television reporter in South Dakota and Iowa.^[1] He received a Juris Doctor from Drake University Law School in 1979. During Gritzner's third year of law school, he worked as a full-time law clerk to then-United States Magistrate Judge Ronald Longstaff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.^[1]^[2]

From 1979 to 1981, Gritzner was an associate of the Waterloo, law firm Mosier, Thomas, Beatty, Dutton, Braun, and Staack.^[1] The firm is now known as Dutton, Daniels, Hines, Kalkhoff, Cook & Swanson.^[3] From 1981 to 1982, he worked at Humphrey, Haas and Gritzner, a new law firm in Des Moines, before leaving after a dispute about the propriety of attorney advertising under ethical rules.^[1]^[2] Gritzner then joined Nyemaster Goode in Des Moines, where he made partner in 1986. Gritzner litigated at Nyemaster until his appointment to the bench.^[1] One of Gritzner's specialties was litigation over catastrophic fires and explosions, in which he maintained a nationwide practice.^[1] He published an article on Iowa's tort law and comparative negligence in the Drake Law Review.^[4] Gritzner was also particularly noted for his expertise in legal ethics issues and was the primary prosecutor for the Committee on Professional Ethics and Conduct of the Iowa State Bar Association and the Client Security and Attorney Disciplinary Commission of the Iowa Supreme Court.^[1] Robert D. Ray appointed Gritzner to the Iowa Board of Parole from 1980 to 1982.^[1] Gritzner was regularly involved in Chuck Grassley's Senate campaigns from 1986 until he became a judge, including chairing Grassley's campaign committees throughout the 1990s.^[1]

District court service

Gritzner was nominated as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2001, to a seat vacated when Charles R. Wolle took senior status. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 14, 2002, and received his commission on February 19, 2002. He served as chief judge from 2011 to 2015. He assumed senior status on March 1, 2015.^[5] In addition to his trial court service, Gritzner regularly sits by designation on the federal courts of appeals.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. 2002. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 14, 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Rogers, Aaron; Callahan, Margaret (2018). No One Is Above the Law: The Story of Southern Iowa's Federal Court. Des Moines, IA: Lexicon Content Marketing. pp. 165–180.
^ "Dutton, Daniels, Hines, Kalkhoff, Cook & Swanson, P.L.C." Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
^ Mark A. Humphrey, Fredd J. Haas, and James E. Gritzner, Comparative Negligence in Iowa--The Time Has Come for the Iowa Supreme Court to Put its House in Order, 31 Drake L. Rev. 709 (1981-1982).
^ James E. Gritzner at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

External links

James E. Gritzner at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Charles R. Wolle	Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa 2002–2015	Succeeded by Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger
Preceded by Robert W. Pratt	Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa 2011–2015	Succeeded by John Alfred Jarvey

v t e Senior district judges of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
E. Arkansas	Wright Wilson
W. Arkansas	Hendren Dawson Holmes
N. Iowa	Reade
S. Iowa	Longstaff Pratt Gritzner
Minnesota	Alsop Magnuson Doty Davis Tunheim Montgomery Frank Ericksen Nelson Wright
E. Missouri	Filippine Hamilton Perry Webber Laughrey Sippel Limbaugh Fleissig Ross
W. Missouri	Sachs Whipple Gaitan Smith Fenner Laughrey Sippel
Nebraska	Kopf Bataillon Gerrard
North Dakota	Conmy Hovland
South Dakota	Piersol Kornmann Schreier

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