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 1902 / Served to 1908

Charles A. Bishop

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Charles A. Bishop was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1902. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1854–1908
Tenure: 1902–1908 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1902	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bishop authored 377 published opinions for the court (1902–1908), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: McGuire v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (90 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. 385 of these were attributed to Bishop 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
1906	McGuire v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad· Concurrence†	131 Iowa 340	90
1908	Eckerson v. City of Des Moines†	137 Iowa 452	80
1906	State v. Smith†	129 Iowa 709	56
1905	Shaw v. City Council· Dissent†	131 Iowa 128	53
1903	Riley v. Bell†	120 Iowa 618	50
1905	Fishburn v. Burlington & Northwestern Railway Co.· Dissent†	127 Iowa 483	46
1905	Sisson v. Board of Supervisors†	128 Iowa 442	44
1905	Sexton v. Sexton†	129 Iowa 487	43
1907	State v. Blydenburg· Concurrence†	135 Iowa 264	41
1907	Hanson v. Kline†	136 Iowa 101	40
1903	Tucker v. Stewart†	121 Iowa 714	40
1908	Conkling v. Standard Oil Co.†	138 Iowa 596	37
1908	Bennett v. City of Emmetsburg†	138 Iowa 67	36
1904	Crawford v. Meis†	123 Iowa 610	35
1903	Foley v. Cudahy Packing Co.†	119 Iowa 246	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 386 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 Charles A. Bishop on?: Charles A. Bishop was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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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).