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CSRRR Annual Spring Lecture “Getting Explicit About Implicit Bias in the Courts”
March 14, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Free
With Judge Mark W. Bennett
Thursday, March 14, 2019, 12:00 pm, Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, UF Levin College of Law
Reception to follow
**Mark W. Bennett was appointed a United States District Court Judge in the Northern District of Iowa on August 26, 1994. On January 1, 2000, he became Chief Judge of the Northern District and served in this capacity for seven years. He graduated from the Drake University Law School in 1975. Upon graduation, he started his own law firm in Des Moines, Iowa, where he specialized in constitutional, civil rights, and employment discrimination and appeared in more than 50 federal district courts spanning California to New York, Bennett had three certiorari petitions granted in the U.S. Supreme Court before he was 32 and argued Evans v. Oscar Mayer Co., 441 U.S. 750 (1979) in the Supreme Court. Prior to becoming a federal judge, Judge Bennett was selected for inclusion in Naifeh & Smith, THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA. He was the youngest lawyer in Iowa to receive an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell and to be inducted as a Fellow in the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers.