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

Iowa Supreme Court / Joined 1967 / Served to 1983

Clay LeGrand

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Clay LeGrand was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–2002
Tenure: 1967–1983 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Saint Ambrose University

Judicial Record

In our data, LeGrand authored 516 published opinions for the court (1967–1983), plus 52 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Sisco (193 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. 125 of these were attributed to LeGrand 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
1969	State v. Sisco· Concurrence†	169 N.W.2d 542	193
1980	State v. Robinson	288 N.W.2d 337	183
1981	In Re the Marriage of Steenhoek	305 N.W.2d 448	159
1975	C & J Fertilizer, Inc. v. Allied Mutual Insurance Co.· Dissent†	227 N.W.2d 169	121
1976	In re the Marriage of Fleener†	247 N.W.2d 219	114
1972	Rosenau Ex Rel. Rosenau v. City of Estherville· Concurrence†	199 N.W.2d 125	107
1982	State v. Schoelerman	315 N.W.2d 67	106
1981	Weitl v. Moes· Concurrence†	311 N.W.2d 259	106
1981	State v. Rich	305 N.W.2d 739	105
1979	State v. Williams	285 N.W.2d 248	100
1970	Hawkeye-Security Insurance Co. v. Ford Motor Co.· Dissent†	174 N.W.2d 672	100
1980	Bierkamp v. Rogers· Dissent†	293 N.W.2d 577	98
1974	Schnebly Ex Rel. Schnebly v. Baker· Dissent†	217 N.W.2d 708	97
1981	State v. Schrier	300 N.W.2d 305	96
1980	State v. Hall· Dissent†	297 N.W.2d 80	95

Showing the 15 most-cited of 588 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 Clay LeGrand on?: Clay LeGrand 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).