Please join IWL for a Lunch and Learn with Judge Mary Pat Gunderson. Judge Gunderson will present her work on the coming documentary "In Sheep's Clothing" and how this documentary came to be.
The Lunch and Learn will be available via Zoom only. Judge Gunderson will have a brief presentation, show the video trailer, and conclude with Q&A.
Zoom access link HERE
Upon retiring from the bench in 2019, Judge Mary Pat Gunderson wrote an article about her experiences with implicit gender bias in judicial opinions, which was published in the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law. Hoping to create systemic change in the way state’s handle attorney ethics cases, she spoke on the topic to various groups, including the Utah Supreme Court, Iowa Supreme Court and National Association of Women Judges. She also spoke at the Idaho Women Lawyers annual conference in 2023. She is now in the process of producing a documentary called “In Sheep’s Clothing.”
In Sheep’s Clothing aims to expose the dark underbelly of the American judicial system, laying bare decades of corruption, systemic cover-ups, and webs of deceit, all perpetrated under a veil of silence, until now. Please see the following links for their website and sizzle reel.
https://www.insheepsclothingdoc.com/
https://vimeo.com/1067805008/5c1e2fe1d3?share=copy
About Judge Mary Pat Gunderson: Mary Pat Gunderson was appointed to Polk County District Court in Des Moines, Iowa by Governor Branstad in 2011. Prior to being appointed to the District Court, she served as a Polk County Magistrate from 2005-2011. From 1989-1996 she was an Assistant Polk County Attorney where she prosecuted over 25 felony jury trials including kidnapping and first-degree murder. Mary Pat has served on a number of committees as a District Court Judge including the Supreme Court Task Force on Family Law and she served as the Chairperson of the Polk County Law Clerk Committee. She graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law in Iowa City, Iowa in 1988.