How do judges of the Iowa Court of Appeals reach the bench?

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

Iowa Court of Appeals / Joined 1983 / Served to 1999

Dick Schlegel

Judge, Iowa Court of Appeals

Dick Schlegel was a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1999 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Iowa Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Schlegel authored 250 published opinions for the court (1983–1999), plus 29 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Marriage of Estlund (84 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. 133 of these were attributed to Schlegel 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
1983	In Re Marriage of Estlund†	344 N.W.2d 276	84
1994	In Re the Marriage of Keith	513 N.W.2d 769	49
1988	In the Interest of H.R.K.	433 N.W.2d 46	48
1989	State v. Edman	444 N.W.2d 103	35
1991	In Re the Marriage of Miller	475 N.W.2d 675	34
1985	Kelly v. Iowa State Education Ass'n†	372 N.W.2d 288	29
1987	State v. Jeffries· Dissent†	417 N.W.2d 237	26
1986	Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Cedar Rapids v. Lala	392 N.W.2d 179	23
1992	State v. Jirak	491 N.W.2d 794	22
1992	Uhl v. City of Sioux City	490 N.W.2d 69	22
1994	State v. Ripperger†	514 N.W.2d 740	21
1991	In the Interest of J.V.	464 N.W.2d 887	21
1986	In the Interest of J.F.	386 N.W.2d 149	21
1987	In Re the Marriage of Skiles	419 N.W.2d 586	20
1989	State v. Callender	444 N.W.2d 768	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 283 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Dick Schlegel on?: Dick Schlegel was a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals.

Sources

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16 years on the Iowa Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).