Hon. Mark Bennett
Hon. Mark W. Bennett (Ret.) was appointed by President Clinton as a Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa in 1994 and served for 24 years between 1994 and 2019. He presided over numerous noteworthy cases and several of his decisions were ultimately affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Judge Bennett also served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the S.D. of Iowa from 1991-1994. Judge Bennett sat by designation by the appointment of Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court on both the 8th and 9th Circuits and in the districts of Arizona, Idaho, M.D. of Fla., Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan), and the S.D. of Iowa on more than 700 cases. Judge Bennett is an active scholar having published more than 25 law review articles in the past nine years at law reviews at Alabama, American, Cardozo, Florida, Harvard, Iowa, Northwestern, Texas, U.C. Davis, U.C.L.A., and Yale, etc.