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

Iowa Supreme Court / Joined 1962 / Served to 1978

C Edwin Moore

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

C Edwin Moore was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1903 · age 123
Tenure: 1962–1978 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Drake University

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 1,701 published opinions for the court (1962–1978), plus 23 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: In Re the Marriage of Winter (408 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. 66 of these were attributed to Moore 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
1974	In Re the Marriage of Winter	223 N.W.2d 165	408
1976	Meyer v. Nottger	241 N.W.2d 911	140
1978	State v. Coil	264 N.W.2d 293	129
1975	State v. Cullison	227 N.W.2d 121	129
1976	State v. Conner	241 N.W.2d 447	123
1976	B & B Asphalt Co. v. T. S. McShane Co.	242 N.W.2d 279	122
1977	Lewis v. State	256 N.W.2d 181	121
1973	Rodman v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.	208 N.W.2d 903	119
1973	Northrup v. Miles Homes, Inc. of Iowa	204 N.W.2d 850	108
1973	State v. Reeves	209 N.W.2d 18	103
1978	Fashion Fabrics of Iowa, Inc. v. Retail Investors Corp.	266 N.W.2d 22	99
1978	State v. Vietor	261 N.W.2d 828	95
1978	Briggs Transportation Co. v. Starr Sales Co.	262 N.W.2d 805	91
1976	State v. Blackwell	238 N.W.2d 131	90
1974	In Re the Marriage of Bowen	219 N.W.2d 683	90

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,730 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 C Edwin Moore on?: C Edwin Moore was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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16 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).