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

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

Iowa Supreme Court / Joined 1915 / Served to 1920

Benjamin I. Salinger

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Benjamin I. Salinger was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1915. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1915–1920 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1915	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Salinger authored 294 published opinions for the court (1915–1920), plus 42 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Davis v. Van Camp Packing Co. (71 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. 347 of these were attributed to Salinger 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
1920	Davis v. Van Camp Packing Co.· Dissent†	189 Iowa 775	71
1915	Weber v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad· Concurrence†	175 Iowa 358	55
1919	Pierce v. Bekins Van & Storage Co.†	185 Iowa 1346	53
1916	State v. Peirce†	178 Iowa 417	53
1919	Bean v. Bickley†	187 Iowa 689	41
1920	Barish v. Barish†	190 Iowa 493	39
1916	State v. O'Donnell†	176 Iowa 337	39
1917	Todd v. State Bank· Dissent†	182 Iowa 276	33
1918	Schooley v. Schooley· Dissent†	184 Iowa 835	32
1917	State v. Brooks†	181 Iowa 874	32
1920	Reid v. Automatic Electric Washer Co.· Concurrence†	189 Iowa 964	31
1919	State v. Gibson†	189 Iowa 1212	31
1918	Mollring v. Mollring†	184 Iowa 464	30
1920	State v. Smith†	192 Iowa 218	29
1916	State v. Saling†	177 Iowa 552	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 350 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 Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Benjamin I. Salinger on?: Benjamin I. Salinger was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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