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The retirement age is 72, after which some judges take senior status. The judges elect the Chief Judge from among themselves every two years. The chief judge functions as the administrative head of the court. As of July 2, 2024, the nine judges of the Iowa Court of Appeals are: [1]
Iowa Supreme Court [1] Iowa Court of Appeals [2] Iowa District Courts (8 districts) [3] Federal courts located in Iowa. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa [4] United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa [5] Former federal courts of Iowa. United States District Court for the District of Iowa ...
First African American male: Luther T. Glanton, Jr. in 1958 [13] [14] First Jewish American male (district court): Ansel Chapman in 1968 [15] First African American male (district court): Luther T. Glanton, Jr. in 1976 [13] [14] First male of part Vietnamese descent (Iowa Supreme Court): Christopher McDonald in 2019 [16]
The Court is the "court of last resort" or the highest court in the Iowa state court system. Its opinions are binding on all other Iowa state courts. The Iowa Supreme Court has the sole power to admit persons to practice as attorneys in the courts of Iowa, to prescribe rules to supervise attorney conduct, and to discipline attorneys.
Following is a list of justices of the Iowa Supreme Court. [1] Austin Adams George Greene Serranus Clinton Hastings served on the Iowa Supreme Court, and later became Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Chester C. Cole
He succeeded Chief Justice Louis A. Lavorato upon Lavorato's retirement and joined the Supreme Court on September 30, 2006. [4] In August 2017, he was retained in a retention election with 64% of the vote. [5] Hecht continued to live in Sioux City as a judge on the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. [3]
Seventh Judicial District Judge John Telleen was one of the three judges originally appointed to the Iowa Business Specialty Court Pilot Project in 2013, [5] and remains one of the judges on the permanent court (as of May 2024). [6] He is a Director of the American College of Business Court Judges. [7]
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Iowa Supreme Court and reinstated Tovar's conviction. [1] Justice Ginsburg, writing for the court, said that the Sixth Amendment did not require colloquies as extensive as the Iowa court had held. A defendant had to be informed of "the nature of the charges against him, of his right to be ...