Judgeship Vacancy

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Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 4/22/2008 at 07:39:26

Maquoketa Sentinel-Press
July 17, 1999

Maquoketa attorney may become judge

A Maquoketa attorney is one of two people nominated to fill a new judgeship vacancy in the Seventh Judicial District.

Nancy Tabor and Gary McKenrick, an associate District Court judge from Davenport, were chosen by the Judicial Nominating Commission of the Seventh Judicial District on July 9.

Gov. Tom Vilsack has 30 days in which to make the appointment from the two nominees.

The newly-created judgeship position is the 12th such judgeship in the district, which includes Jackson, Clinton, Scott and Muscatine counties.

Tabor, a native of New Jersey, received her law degree from the University of Wyoming.

She has practiced law since 1986. She and her husband, Phil, who is Jackson County attorney, moved to Maquoketa from Wyoming in the fall of 1989.

She served as an assistant Clinton County attorney, handling juvenile and mental health cases and representing the county in Magistrate Court.

She resigned that position in June of 1992 to join Corliss Baty in private practice in Maquoketa, a position she has held since.

McKenrick is a graduate of Central Community High School in DeWitt.

The other candidates were Bruce Ingham, Michael Liebbe, Thomas Preacher, and Stephen Wing, all Davenport attorneys.

Also Michael Judge, part-time magistrate and attorney in Clinton; Michael Tobey, part-time magistrate for Scott County and a Davenport attorney; James Weaver, district associate judge in Muscatine County, and Robert Weinberg, assistant Scott County attorney.