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Ternus to deliver Coe commencement address
Gazette Staff/SourceMedia
Apr. 24, 2011 6:31 am
CEDAR RAPIDS - Former Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Marsha Ternus will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of law degree from Coe College on May 8.
Ternus was appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court in 1993 by Gov.
Terry Branstad, and was selected by members of the court to serve as chief justice in 2006. She was the first woman to serve as chief justice of Iowa's top court.
Iowa voters defeated Ternus and Associate Justices Michael Streit and David Baker in retention votes in November.
The justices were targeted by a campaign after they participated in the unanimous Varnum v.
Brien decision striking down Iowa's ban on same-sex marriage.
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