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 1925 / Served to 1932

Edgar A. Morling

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Edgar A. Morling was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1925–1932 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Morling authored 419 published opinions for the court (1925–1932), plus 18 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Anderson v. Jester (75 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. 2 of these were attributed to Morling 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
1928	Anderson v. Jester	221 N.W. 354	75
1931	State Ex Rel. Fletcher v. District Court	238 N.W. 290	57
1926	Hansen v. Kemmish	208 N.W. 277	51
1930	Johnson County Savings Bank v. City of Creston	237 N.W. 507	42
1928	In Re Estate of Newson	219 N.W. 305	36
1927	Leach v. Iowa State Savings Bank	212 N.W. 748	36
1927	New York Life Insurance v. Burbank	216 N.W. 742	33
1930	Iowa National Bank v. Stewart	232 N.W. 445	31
1928	Keck v. McKinstry	221 N.W. 851	31
1926	Olson v. Southern Surety Co.	208 N.W. 213	30
1931	Hanson v. Manning	239 N.W. 793	28
1930	Butler Manufacturing Co. v. Elliott & Cox	233 N.W. 669	26
1928	Hawkins v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance	218 N.W. 313	25
1927	Leach v. Farmers Savings Bank· Dissent	216 N.W. 748	25
1925	Hoyt v. Hampe	214 N.W. 718	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 441 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 Edgar A. Morling on?: Edgar A. Morling was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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7 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).