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Donald Eugene O'Brien

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa · 1978

Donald Eugene O'Brien , Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. Donald Eugene O'Brien (September 30, 1923 – August 18, 2015) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.

Education

  • Creighton University School of LawLL.B., 1948

Career

U.S. Army lieutenant, Air Corps, 1942-1945; Private practice, Sioux City, Iowa, 1948-1949, 1967-1978; Assistant city attorney, Sioux City, Iowa, 1949-1953; County attorney, Woodbury County, Iowa, 1955-1958; Judge, Sioux City [Iowa] Municipal Court, 1959-1960; U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, 1961-1967; Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1991-1997

Biography

Donald Eugene O'Brien (September 30, 1923 – August 18, 2015) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.

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