How do judges of the Iowa Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Iowa Court of Appeals / Joined 2008 / Active

Amanda Potterfield

Judge, Iowa Court of Appeals

Amanda Potterfield is a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Iowa Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Potterfield authored 54 published opinions for the court (2009–2018). Most cited: State v. Armstrong (27 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 52 of these were attributed to Potterfield by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2010	State v. Armstrong	787 N.W.2d 472	27
2009	State v. Thomas†	766 N.W.2d 263	14
2013	State v. Leaton†	836 N.W.2d 673	9
2016	State of Iowa v. Collin Alexander Ruhs†	885 N.W.2d 822	4
2014	Trustees of Iowa Laborers District Council Health & Welfare Trust v. Ankeny Community School District†	865 N.W.2d 270	4
2017	In the Interest of D.H., Minor Child, D.H.†	902 N.W.2d 584	3
2011	Mercy Medical Center v. Healy†	801 N.W.2d 865	2
2011	In the Interest of T.D.E.†	796 N.W.2d 447	2
2016	Sysco Iowa, Inc. v. University of Iowa†	889 N.W.2d 235	1
2009	State v. TANGARA†	777 N.W.2d 129	1
2009	Smith v. Haugland	762 N.W.2d 890	1
2018	Nathaniel Yancey Jr. v. State of Iowa†	922 N.W.2d 105	0
2018	Tu Ha v. CMP Tactical Lazer Tag, AKA Tactical Laser Tag, L.L.C. and Escape Chambers, L.L.C.†	922 N.W.2d 105	0
2018	Extreme Auto Plaza, Inc. v. Iowa Department of Transportation, Office of Vehicle and Motor Carrier Services†	922 N.W.2d 105	0
2018	East Iowa Plastics, Inc. v. Hartford Casualty Insurance Company†	922 N.W.2d 106	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 54 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Iowa Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is Amanda Potterfield on?: Amanda Potterfield is a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals.

Sources

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18 years on the Iowa Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).