Twelve candidates have been identified to participate in interviews starting on Tuesday, Jan. 7 to replace the late Judge Mark Cady on the Iowa Supreme Court. One of those hails from right here in Carroll. Forty-one-year-old Matthew C. McDermott graduated from Kuemper Catholic High School, working at the local Hy-Vee during his high school days. After spending his second and third years of law school interning for a large New York firm, McDermott decided he was interested in a career that allowed him more time in the courtroom and began researching positions back in his home state. He applied to and was hired by Belin McCormick, P.C. in Des Moines. In an interview with the University of California Berkeley Law alumni magazine after winning the Iowa State Bar Association’s Young Lawyer Division Award of Merit in 2013, he says he has never regretted that decision. Since then he has received the highest ratings from Super Lawyers, a firm that ranks the top-rated practicing attorneys across the country. McDermott received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa and his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. A full listing of the other candidates for the Supreme Court position can be found below. Cady was Chief Justice from 2011 to Nov. 15, 2019 when he died of a heart attack. He was appointed to the court as an associate justice by then Gov., Terry Branstad, in 1998.
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- Judge Joel Barrows
- Judge Romonda Belcher
- Judge Mary Chicchelly
- Attorney Timothy Gartin
- Judge David May
- Attorney William Miller
- Attorney Craig Nierman
- Attorney Alan Ostergren
- Attorney Dana Oxley
- Assistant Attorney General Lisa Reel Schmidt
- Assistant appellate defender Theresa Wilson