Stephen H. Locher
United States district judge
Stephen Henley Locher (born 1978) is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa since 2022. He previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court from 2021 to 2022.
Education
Locher's hometown is Mason City, Iowa. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame, magna cum laude, in 2000 and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 2003. During law school, he taught economics at Harvard University.
Legal career
Locher served as a law clerk for Judge John R. Gibson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from 2003 to 2004. From 2004 to 2008, he was an associate at Goldberg Kohn in Chicago, where he specialized in commercial law. From 2008 to 2013, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Iowa. As a federal prosecutor, he prosecuted pro basketball player Rumeal Robinson for bank fraud and bribery. He was then a partner at Belin McCormick, P.C., in Des Moines, Iowa from 2013 to 2021, specializing in commercial litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and appeals.
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