Bruce B. Zager (born December 11, 1952) is a former justice of the
Iowa Supreme Court.
Education
Zager was born and raised in
Waterloo, Iowa.
Zager was a high school classmate of
David L. Baker
David L. Baker was a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court from 2008 to December 31, 2010.
Justice Baker attended undergraduate and law school at the University of Iowa, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1975 with Honors in Sociology and his Juris Do ...
, who he eventually replaced on the Iowa Supreme Court. Zager graduated from the
University of Iowa in 1975 and from
Drake University Law School in 1980.
Legal and judicial career
From 1981 to 1999, Zager practiced in Waterloo. He was a part-time
Black Hawk County attorney for twelve of those years. He was appointed to be a judge of the
Iowa District Court in 1999.
Zager was then appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court in 2011, after Iowa voters had removed three justices seeking reelection in response to the court unanimously legalizing same-sex marriage in ''
Varnum v. Brien
''Varnum v. Brien'', 763 N.W.2d 862 (Iowa 2009), was an Iowa Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that the state's limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples violated the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution. The ...
''. Zager retired from the Iowa Supreme Court on September 3, 2018.
Zager currently serves as the lone senior judge of the Iowa Supreme Court.
References
External links
Iowa Judicial Branch page for Bruce B. ZagerBallotpedia ProfileVoteSmart Profile
1952 births
Living people
Justices of the Iowa Supreme Court
People from Waterloo, Iowa
University of Iowa alumni
21st-century American judges
Drake University Law School alumni
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