(DES MOINES) - Gov. Terry E. Branstad today appointed Mark Ray Lawson Seventh Judicial Circuit Judge.

Lawson, of Bellevue, earned his law degree from Drake University and is currently working in private practice and as Magistrate for Jackson County.

The Seventh Judicial Circuit includes Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Muscatine and Scott counties. 

Lawson fills the vacancy left by Judge Pelton.

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