Michael John Streit[1] (born April 14, 1950)[2] is former justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.
[6] In 2001, Tom Vilsack appointed Streit to the Iowa Supreme Court.
[7] In 2010, Streit lost a retention vote along with David L. Baker and Marsha Ternus after a campaign against the Iowa Supreme Court's decision in Varnum v. Brien, which struck down a statutory same-sex marriage ban as unconstitutional.
[8] In 2012, Streit received a Profile in Courage Award from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
[7] After leaving the bench, Streit practiced law at Ahlers & Cooney in Des Moines, Iowa from 2011 to 2018, then at Sullivan & Ward P.C.