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Bruce B. Zager (born December 11, 1952) is a former justice of the
Iowa Supreme Court The Iowa Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Iowa. The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and six Associate Justices. The Court holds its regular sessions in Des Moines in the Iowa Judicial Branch Building located at 1111 E ...
.


Education

Zager was born and raised in
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. 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
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in 1975 and from
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in 1980.


Legal and judicial career

From 1981 to 1999, Zager practiced in Waterloo. He was a part-time
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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.


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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 {{Iowa-state-judge-stub