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 1923 / Served to 1927

Charles W. Vermilion

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Charles W. Vermilion was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1923. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1923–1927 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1923	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Vermilion authored 285 published opinions for the court (1923–1927), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Maine v. James Maine & Sons Co. (73 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. 74 of these were attributed to Vermilion 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
1924	Maine v. James Maine & Sons Co.†	198 Iowa 1278	73
1925	Carlson v. Meusberger	204 N.W. 432	72
1926	McCornack v. Central State Bank	211 N.W. 542	43
1925	Iowa City State Bank v. Pritchard	202 N.W. 512	37
1926	Fevold v. Board of Supervisors	210 N.W. 139	35
1927	Tunnicliff v. Bettendorf	214 N.W. 516	32
1927	Rowley v. City of Cedar Rapids	212 N.W. 158	32
1926	Philip Carey Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co.	206 N.W. 808	32
1925	In Re Will of Richardson	203 N.W. 114	31
1927	State v. Dunn	211 N.W. 850	29
1924	State v. Leeper	200 N.W. 732	29
1924	State v. Williams†	197 Iowa 813	29
1925	Nertney v. National Fire Insurance	203 N.W. 826	28
1924	Horrabin v. City of Des Moines†	198 Iowa 549	28
1924	Hurley v. Bankers Life Co.· Concurrence†	198 Iowa 1129	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 289 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 W. Vermilion on?: Charles W. Vermilion was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).