Edward Mansfield (judge)

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Edward Mansfield

|office = Associate Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court

|appointer = Terry Branstad

|term_start = February 23, 2011

|term_end =

|predecessor = Michael Streit

|successor =

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|01|12}}

|birth_place = Massachusetts, U.S.

|death_date =

|death_place =

|party = Republican

|education = Harvard University (BA)
Yale University (JD)

}}

Edward M. Mansfield (born January 12, 1957) is an American lawyer who is a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.{{cite web|url=https://www.ali.org/members/member/429739/ |title= The Hon. Edward M. Mansfield |publisher=American Law Institute|accessdate=September 21, 2012}}

Education

Mansfield grew up in Massachusetts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2020/03/11/iowa-supreme-court-finalists-mcdermott-chicchelly-and-may-in-their-own-words/|title=Iowa Supreme Court finalists McDermott, Chicchelly, and May, in their own words|date=March 11, 2020|website=Bleeding Heartland|language=en|access-date=April 5, 2020}} His mother was a refugee from the Soviet Union.{{Cite web|date=August 2012|title=Iowa Voters Judicial Directory|url=http://www.judicialselection.us/uploads/documents/IowaVotersJudicialDirectory_253168CEAA6C9.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718140656/http://www.judicialselection.us/uploads/documents/IowaVotersJudicialDirectory_253168CEAA6C9.pdf|archive-date=July 18, 2019|website=Iowa Judicial Branch}} He graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in 1978 and Yale Law School in 1982.{{Cite web|url=https://globegazette.com/news/local/gov-culver-appoints-attorney-to-iowa-court-of-appeals/article_cdef2b80-35b8-5687-9496-6f87f95056c3.html|title=Gov. Culver appoints attorney to Iowa Court of Appeals|website=Globe Gazette {{!}} Mason City, Iowa {{!}} globegazette.com|date=January 15, 2009 |language=en|access-date=April 5, 2020}}{{Cite web|last=Mansfield|first=Edward|date=2011|title=Questionnaire|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/47337686/Mansfield-questionnaire|website=Iowa Judicial Watch}} During law school, Mansfield worked at the Boston office of Sullivan & Worcester and at the Los Angeles office of O'Melveny & Myers. He declined offers from both firms to join them permanently.

Career

After law school Mansfield clerked for Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before entering private practice. From 1983 to 1996, he practiced at Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie in Phoenix, Arizona, where he became a partner in 1988. He then moved to Des Moines for his wife's career and was a litigator at Belin McCormick P.C. from 1996 to 2009.{{Cite web|url=https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/128755/edward-mansfield|title=Edward Mansfield|website=VoteSmart|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200405024231/https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/128755/edward-mansfield|archive-date=April 5, 2020|access-date=April 4, 2020}} In 1997, Mansfield started teaching as an adjunct professor at Drake University. He has also served as the chairperson of the board of directors of Goodwill Industries of Central Iowa.

Judicial career

= State court of appeals service =

Mansfield was appointed by Chet Culver to the Iowa Court of Appeals in 2009.

= Iowa Supreme Court =

Mansfield was one of three justices appointed by Governor Terry Branstad in 2011.{{cite news|url=https://governor.iowa.gov/2011/02/branstad-names-iowa-court-of-appeals-judge-edward-mansfield-to-the-iowa-supreme-court|title=Branstad names Iowa Court of Appeals Judge Edward Mansfield to the Iowa Supreme Court|date=February 23, 2011|work=Office of the Governor of Iowa|accessdate=December 6, 2016}} In November 2010, Iowa voters had removed all three justices seeking reelection in response to the court unanimously legalizing same-sex marriage in Varnum v. Brien.{{cite news|author=A.G. Sulzberger|title=Ouster of Iowa Judges Sends Signal to Bench|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/us/politics/04judges.html?_r=0|accessdate=October 11, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=November 3, 2010|page=A1}}

In 2012, Mansfield authored an opinion for the court which found a dentist did not commit gender discrimination when, at the insistence of his wife, he fired a dental assistant to whom he was sexually attracted.Nelson v. Knight, No. 11-1857 (Iowa Dec. 21, 2012).{{Cite web|url=https://www-m.cnn.com/2012/12/21/justice/iowa-irresistible-worker/index.html|title=Iowa Supreme Court: OK to fire 'irresistible' worker|date=December 22, 2012|website=CNN.com|access-date=June 1, 2018}} In 2016, Mansfield dissented when the Court found that the Iowa Constitution categorically prohibited life without parole for juveniles who committed first degree murder.

In September 2016, Mansfield was named as a possible nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.{{Cite news|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-will-expand-list-of-possible-supreme-court-picks/ar-BBwxm7M?li=BBnb7Kz|title=Donald Trump will expand list of possible Supreme Court picks|last=Flores|first=Reena|date=September 23, 2016|work=CBS News|access-date=September 23, 2016|via=MSN}}

References

External links

[http://www.iowacourts.gov/About_the_Courts/Supreme_Court/Supreme_Court_Justices/Justice_Edward_M_Mansfield/ Iowa Judicial Branch page for Edward M. Mansfield]
[http://ballotpedia.org/Edward_Mansfield Ballotpedia Profile]
[http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/128755/edward-mansfield#.VBIrMSwtCUk VoteSmart Profile]

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