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DONAHUE v. STATE

No. 89-1415.

474 N.W.2d 537 (1991)

Patricia DONAHUE, Appellant, v. STATE of Iowa, Board of Regents, and University of Iowa, Judicial Hearing Panel (Members: Marilyn Zurmuehlen, Samir Bishara, and Nicholas Colangelo), Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 18, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry N. Zimmermann, Cedar Rapids, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., and Julie F. Pottorff, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.

Considered en banc.

HARRIS, Justice.

Is an administrative panel, organized among university faculty members to review promotion decisions, a "governmental body"? If so it is subject to Iowa's open meetings law. Iowa Code ch. 21 (1989). The district court thought it is not and we agree.

Patricia Donahue, an associate professor of nursing at the University of Iowa, was denied a promotion to full professor. She appealed the denial through the university's departmental and college...

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