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 1999 / Active

Anuradha Vaitheswaran

Judge, Iowa Court of Appeals

Anuradha Vaitheswaran is a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Iowa Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Vaitheswaran authored 57 published opinions for the court (2000–2018), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: In the Interest of S.J. (74 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. 54 of these were attributed to Vaitheswaran 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
2000	In the Interest of S.J.†	620 N.W.2d 522	74
2012	In the Interest of W.W.†	826 N.W.2d 706	47
2013	In the Interest of R.B.†	832 N.W.2d 375	45
2015	In re the Marriage of Witherly†	867 N.W.2d 856	31
2016	In the Interest of N v. Minor Child, S.B. and J.B., Intervenors, M.I., Intervenor†	877 N.W.2d 146	27
2014	Shawn James, Applicant-Appellant v. State of Iowa†	858 N.W.2d 32	21
2011	American Tower, L.P. v. Local TV Iowa, L.L.C.†	809 N.W.2d 546	18
2014	State of Iowa v. Walter Scott Sutton· Dissent†	853 N.W.2d 284	17
2010	Alcor Life Extension Foundation v. Richardson	785 N.W.2d 717	13
2015	In the Interest of J.L., Minor Child, V.L., Mother†	868 N.W.2d 462	11
2010	Cooper v. KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE· Dissent†	782 N.W.2d 160	11
2008	Farrell v. Iowa District Court for Polk County†	747 N.W.2d 789	11
2009	Day v. THE FINLEY HOSP.	769 N.W.2d 898	10
2014	State of Iowa v. Brock McRey Burgdorf†	861 N.W.2d 273	9
2014	In the Interest of A.C. and A.J., Minor Children, J.C., Father†	852 N.W.2d 515	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 61 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 Anuradha Vaitheswaran on?: Anuradha Vaitheswaran is a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals.

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27 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).