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Dana Oxley

Justice

Dana Oxley

Justice Oxley was appointed to the Supreme Court in January 2020.

Justice Oxley was born in Neosho, Missouri, and grew up in Greenfield, Iowa. She received her undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Northern Iowa in 1990 and received her J.D. from the University of Iowa in 1998, graduating Order of the Coif. Following law school, Justice Oxley served as a one-year term clerk for the Honorable David R. Hansen on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and later returned to serve as a career law clerk for Judge Hansen until 2011. Prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court, Justice Oxley practiced with Shuttleworth & Ingersoll PLC in Cedar Rapids.

Justice Oxley has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, is a past president of the Eighth Circuit Bar Association, and is an editor of the Eighth Circuit Appellate Practice Manual. She is a member of The Iowa State Bar Association, the Eighth Circuit Bar Association, and the Linn County Bar Association.

Her current term expires December 31, 2030.

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