DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Polk County district court judge has been approved to serve as a judge in one of Iowa’s federal courts.
Sen. Chuck Grassley announced Monday that the U.S. Senate approved Rebecca Ebinger’s nomination to serve as a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Iowa.
President Barack Obama nominated Ebinger on Sept. 15 and the Senate unanimously approved the nomination Monday. Her nomination will return to Obama for final approval.
Ebinger has served as a state district judge in Iowa since 2012. Prior to that, she was an assistant U.S. attorney in the southern district’s criminal division, and she served in a similar role for the U.S. court for the northern district of Iowa from 2009 to 2011.
She received her law degree from Yale Law School in 2004.
