Thomas D. Waterman
Education
- Dartmouth College (B.A., cum laude, 1981)
- University of Iowa (J.D. 1984); Order of the Coif
Admissions
- Iowa - 1984
- Illinois - 1985
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa - 1984
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa - 1986
- U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois - 1988
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit - 1988
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit - 1988
- U.S. Supreme Court - 2003
Honors
- Finalist for Iowa Supreme Court Vacancy (2008)
- Martindale Hubbell AV rating
- Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers (general commercial litigation)
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Commercial Litigation)
Professional Associations
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
- Member, Association of Defense Trial Attorneys
- Fellow, Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Member, Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel
- Member, Defense Research Institute
- Member, Iowa Defense Counsel Association (Co-Editor - Defense Update)
- Jury Instruction Committee, Iowa State Bar Association
- State Judicial Nominating Commission (1999-2005)
Community
- President (Chief Volunteer Officer), Corporate Board of Scott County Family YMCA
- Past President, Board of Trustees, Rivermont Collegiate
Selected Speeches & Publications
- Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference: Moderator—Panel discussion "Social Networking and Other Evils of the Internet in Jury Trials"—August 12, 2010 (panelists: The Honorable Donald W. Molloy, U.S. District Court, District of Montana; Douglas L. Keene, Ph.D., Keene Consulting, Austin, Texas; and Andrea Henson-Armstrong, Education Attorney, Federal Judicial Center, Washington D.C.)
- Daubert Revisited: The Gatekeeper Role of the Iowa District Court for the Admissibility of Expert Testimony after Ranes v. Adams Laboratories, Inc. (publication pending for Spring 2010 edition of Defense Update (quarterly publication of Iowa Defense Counsel Association))
- Moderator—Panel presentation on jury instructions and verdict forms at the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers annual meeting February 26, 2010 (panelists: Justice David Baker; Magistrate Judge Ross Walters; attorney Steven P. Wandro)
- Author and Presenter, "Iowa's New Rules of Appellate Procedure -- What Practitioners Need to Know." Presented January 19, 2009, at the Scott County Bar Association CLE in Davenport, Iowa and published in the winter 2009 issue of Defense Update (quarterly publication of Iowa Defense Counsel Association (IDCA)
- Author and Presenter, "Bituminous Casualty Corp. v. Sand Livestock Systems – The Absolute Pollution Exclusion and the Reasonable Expectations Doctrine," Defense Update, Fall issue 2008 (quarterly publication of Iowa Defense Counsel Association (IDCA)).
- Author and Presenter, "Punitive Damages in Product Liability Cases: Philip Morris USA v. Williams and the Campbell Guideposts." Iowa Defense Counsel Association ("IDCA") Spring Seminar, April 13, 2007
- Commencement Address, University of Iowa College of Law December 16, 2006 Graduation Ceremony: "Suggestions for Achieving Fulfillment and Balance in a Demanding Profession -- Practice Poisons and Antidotes." Reprinted in IOWA LAWYER - February, 2007 at 32-34
- Author, Iowa Chapter for Treatise on Staying and Superceding Judgments: A National Compendium, published by the Torts & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association
- Panelist, Multi-State Conference of Courts of Appeals, Dubuque, Iowa, September 15, 2006 (one of four Iowa lawyers)
- Co-author, "Iowa's Rescue Doctrine and Comparative Fault – An Open Question and Suggested Answer." Defense Update, Spring 2006 (quarterly publication of Iowa Defense Counsel Association "IDCA")
- Author, "State Farm v. Campbell Mandates Revisions to the Iowa Uniform Jury Instruction on Punitive Damages." Defense Update, Fall, 2004
- Author, "New Assistance for Defending Punitive Damages Claims in Iowa – The 'Marching Orders of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Campbell." Defense Update, September 2003
- Author, "What's Bad About The Vanishing Trial?" Defense Update, Autumn 2002
- Author and Presenter, "Defending Punitive Damages in Iowa." Iowa Defense Counsel Association Fall Seminar, September 2000
- Author, "Iowa Environmental Coverage Law After the FFIC v. ACC Chemical Co. ("Chemplex") Late Notice Decision: The Answered and Unanswered Questions," Mealey's Litigation Reports: Insurance, 11/07/95
- Author, "State Court Jurisdiction over Multistate Plaintiff Class Actions: Minimum Contacts and Miner v. Gillette," 60 Iowa Law Review 795 (1984)