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June 2005
Judge Reade files her 2004 financial disclosure form showing stock ownership in GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America. She does not disclose the amount of stocks. No other judge in the Eighth Circuit invests in private prisons.

June 2004
Judge Linda R. Reade files her financial disclosure form showing stock ownership in for profit prison companies GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America. The amount of the investment is not disclosed. She is the only federal judge in the Eighth Circuit to invest in private prisons.

November 14, 2002
Linda R. Reade is confirmed as a federal judge for the Northern District of Iowa