Bruce M. Snell Jr.

Bruce M. Snell Jr. (18 August 1929[1] – 20 December 2019)[2] was an American judge.

He was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court from October 8, 1987 to August 18, 2001 appointed from Ida County, Iowa.

Born in Ida Grove, Iowa, Snell received a BA from Grinnell College in 1951, and then served in the United States Army. He received a law degree from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1956, and was a law clerk to Judge Henry Norman Graven of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. Snell moved to New York City to practice law, later returning to Iowa and serving as assistant Iowa Attorney General. He practiced law in Ida Grove until 1976, when he was appointed to the Iowa Court of Appeals, where he remained until his appointment to the Iowa Supreme Court.

References
  1. State, Iowa Secretary of (December 28, 1984). "Iowa Official Register". Iowa General Assembly – via Google Books.
  2. Spoerre, Anna. "'An Iowan by choice': Bruce Snell, a former Iowa Supreme Court Justice and founding member of the appeals court, dies at 90". Des Moines Register.
Political offices
Preceded by
Charles Robert Wolle		 Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
1987–2001		 Succeeded by
Michael Streit



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