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 1936 / Served to 1942

Carl B. Stiger

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Carl B. Stiger was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1936. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1936–1942 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1936	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stiger authored 219 published opinions for the court (1935–1942), plus 11 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Heinz (64 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. 3 of these were attributed to Stiger 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
1937	State v. Heinz	275 N.W. 10	64
1939	Young v. Hendricks	283 N.W. 895	30
1942	In Re Estate of Eiker	6 N.W.2d 318	26
1937	Boyle v. Bornholtz	275 N.W. 479	26
1941	Koch v. Kiron State Bank· Dissent	297 N.W. 450	25
1939	Craddock v. Bickelhaupt	288 N.W. 109	24
1937	Thompson v. Butler	274 N.W. 110	24
1939	Rogers Ex Rel. Rogers v. Jefferson· Dissent	285 N.W. 701	22
1938	Maloney v. Rose	277 N.W. 572	22
1938	Wells v. Wildin	277 N.W. 308	22
1937	Miller v. Incorporated Town of Milford	276 N.W. 826	22
1937	Maurer v. Johansson	274 N.W. 99	22
1938	Corning v. Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Co.	282 N.W. 791	21
1942	Roushar v. Dixon	2 N.W.2d 660	20
1942	Hitchcock v. Iowa Southern Utilities Co.	6 N.W.2d 29	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 231 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 Carl B. Stiger on?: Carl B. Stiger was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

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6 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).