Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has appointed a 44-year-old who was born in Thailand as the next justice of the Iowa Supreme Court. Christopher McDonald has been serving on the Iowa Court of Appeals since September of 2013.
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Reynolds introduced McDonald as the jurist who will fill the vacancy on the Iowa Supreme Court at an event in her capitol office.
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He got his undergraduate degree at Grand View University in 1997 and his law degree from the University of Iowa in 2001.
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McDonald is filling the vacancy created when Justice Daryl Hecht resigned for health reasons.