Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger
Education
 Yale Law School, J.D., 2004
o Editor, Yale Law Journal, 2002 – 2003
o Potter Stewart Award Recipient (winning team), The Morris Tyler Moore Moot
Court, 2003
 William and Mary Law School, 2001 – 2002
o Designated Recipient, William A.R. Goodwin Memorial Scholarship (presented to
the first-year student who finishes first in the class)
 Georgetown University, B.S. in Foreign Service, 1997
Professional Experience
 District Judge, Judicial Election District 5C, 2012 – present
o Polk County Courthouse Security Committee, 2012 – present
o Committee for the revision of the Iowa Judicial Bench Book, 2014 – present
o Iowa Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure,
2014 – present
 Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa, 2011 –
2012
 Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa, 2008 –
2011
 Law Clerk to the Honorable Michael J. Melloy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth
Circuit, 2006 – 2008
 Special Assistant U.S. Attorney/Assistant County Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the
Northern District of Iowa & Black Hawk County Attorney’s Office, 2004 – 2006
Professional Associations & Memberships
 American Judges Association, 2013 – 2014
 C. Edwin Moore American Inn of Court, Barrister & Master, 2012 – present
 Iowa Judges Association, 2012 – present
 Iowa Organization of Women Attorneys, 2004 – present
o Board Member, 2007 – 2012
 Iowa State Bar Association, 2004 – present
 Linn County Bar Association, 2004 – present
 Linn Law Club, 2004 – 2011
o Vice President, 2009 – 2010
 National Association of Women Judges, 2012 – present
 Polk County Bar Association, 2012 – present
 Polk County Women Attorneys, 2012 – present