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Rosemary Sackett

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Rosemary Sackett
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Prior offices:
Iowa Court of Appeals
Education
Bachelor's
Buena Vista College
Law
Drake University Law School


Rosemary Shaw Sackett was a chief judge for the Iowa Court of Appeals. She was appointed to the court in 1983 and was elected chief judge in 1999.[1] She was retained to the court in 2008.[2] She retired January 17, 2012, when she reached the mandatory retirement age.[3] As of 2012, she held the record of the longest serving judge in the appellate court's history.[4]

Education

Rosemary Sackett was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa on January 17, 1940.[5] She graduated from Buena Vista College in 1960. She went on to earn her law degree from Drake University Law School in 1963. In 1990, she received her master of laws (LL.M.) degree from the University of Virginia. Buena Vista University awarded her an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree in 2006. She is married and has five children.[6][1]

Career

Judge Sackett practiced law in Pocahontas and Spencer, Iowa for 20 years before joining the Court of Appeals. She has also worked as an assistant County Attorney in Clay County and she is a member of various law associations.[1]

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