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Judges · Iowa Supreme Court

Matthew McDermott

Justice

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About

  • Appointed to this post in 20201
  • No retention vote on record yet. New judges face voters at the first general election after a full year on the bench.

Justice McDermott was appointed to the Supreme Court in April 2020. Justice McDermott was born and raised in Carroll, Iowa. He graduated from the University of Iowa in 2000. He received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003, where he served as an editor of the…

Full biography on iowacourts.gov

Retention votes

No retention votes on record (Iowa Funnel has them from 2020 for justices and 2022 for other judges).

Opinions written

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Supreme Court opinions since November 2017; Court of Appeals opinions from November 2026.