Mark S. Cady
Buena Vista University
Chief Justice Cady, Ft. Dodge, has served on the Iowa Supreme Court since 1998. The members of the court selected him as chief justice in 2010.
Chief Justice Cady was born in Rapid City, South Dakota. He earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from Drake University. After graduating from law school in 1978, he served as a judicial law clerk for the Second Judicial District for one year. He was then appointed as an assistant Webster County attorney and practiced with a law firm in Fort Dodge. Chief Justice Cady was appointed a district associate judge in 1983 and a district court judge in 1986. In 1994, he was appointed to the Iowa Court of Appeals. He was elected chief judge of the court of appeals in 1997 and served until his appointment to the supreme court.
Chief Justice Cady is a member of the Order of Coif (honorary), The Iowa State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Iowa Judges Association, and Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers (honorary). He also served as chair of the Supreme Court's Task Force on the Court's and Communities' Response to Domestic Abuse and is a member of the Drake Law School Board of Counselors. In 2013, Chief Justice Cady was elected to the Conference of Chief Justices Board of Directors. He is the coauthor of Preserving the Delicate Balance Between Judicial Accountability and Independence: Merit Selection in the Post-White World, 16 Cornell J.L. and Pub. Pol'y 101 (2008) and of Iowa Practice: Lawyer and Judicial Ethics (Thomson-West 2007). He is the author of Curbing Litigation Abuse and Misuse: A Judicial Approach, 36 Drake L. Rev. 481 (1987). Justice Cady also delivered remarks at the 2012 Drake Law School Constitutional Law Symposium, The Iowa Judiciary, Funding, and the Poor, 60 Drake L. Rev. 1127 (2012) and presented the inaugural Drake Law School Iowa Constitution Lecture.
- Adjunct faculty member
- Buena Vista University
- Current
- serves on its President's Advisory Council
- Justice
- Iowa Supreme Court
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- Chief Justice since 2010
- Judge
- Iowa Court of Appeals
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- Elected Chief Judge 1997
- District Court Judge
- State of Iowa
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- District Associate Judge
- State of Iowa
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- Judicial Law Clerk
- Second Judicial District
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- Drake University
- Undergraduate degree
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- Drake University Law School
- J.D. (1978) | Law
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- Honorary doctorate degree in Public Service
- Buena Vista University
- Alumni Achievement Award
- Drake University
- Outstanding Alumnus Award
- Drake University Law School
- Order of Coif
- Member
- Current
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- The Iowa State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Iowa Judges Association
- Member
- Current
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- Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Member
- Current
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- Drake Law School Board of Counselors
- Member
- Current
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- Conference of Chief Justices
- Board of Directors
- Current
- Activities: chairs its Committee on Courts, Children, and Families
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- iCivics Inc
- Iowa chair
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- Preserving the Delicate Balance Between Judicial Accountability and Independence: Merit Selection in the Post-White World
- Cornell J.L. and Pub. Pol'y
- Iowa Practice
- Thomson-West
- Curbing Litigation Abuse and Misuse: A Judicial Approach
- Drake L. Rev.
- A Pioneer's Constitution: How Iowa's Constitutional History Uniquely Shapes Our Pioneering Tradition in Recognizing Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, inaugural Drake Law School Iowa Constitution Lecture
- Drake Law School
- A Pioneer's Constitution: How Iowa's Constitutional History Uniquely Shapes Our Pioneering Tradition in Recognizing Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, 60 Drake L. Rev. 1133 (2012)
- The Iowa Judiciary, Funding, and the Poor, Drake Law School Constitutional Law Symposium
- Drake Law School
- 60 Drake L. Rev. 1127 (2012)
