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Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger

Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger

Iowa Southern District Court

Born 1975 in Clearwater, FL

FJC ID: 3601

Career output and lasting influence

Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 6/year

Iowa Southern District Court · 2016–200720102020202560
citing decisions

Iowa Southern District Court · 2016–

Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.

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Rebecca Leigh Goodgame Ebinger (born in 1975) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa and former Iowa state judge.

Gender
Female
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Iowa District Court, Fifth Judicial District (Subdistrict 5C)
    Judge · 2012–2016
  2. Southern District of Iowa
    Southern District of Iowa
    Assistant U.S. attorney · 2011–2012
  3. Northern District of Iowa
    Northern District of Iowa
    Assistant U.S. attorney · 2009–2010
  4. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  5. Black Hawk County, Iowa, designated as special assistant U.S. attorney, Northern District of Iowa
    Black Hawk County, Iowa, designated as special assistant U.S. attorney, Northern District of Iowa
    Assistant county attorney · 2004–2006

Appointments

  1. Iowa Southern District Court
    2016–present · Appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic)

Education

  1. Yale University Law School
    J.D. · 2004
  2. Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
    B.S.F.S. · 1997