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 1936

Elma G. Albert

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Elma G. Albert was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1925–1936 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Albert authored 641 published opinions for the court (1925–1936), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Kisling v. Thierman (187 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 Albert 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
1932	Kisling v. Thierman	243 N.W. 552	187
1933	White Ex Rel. White v. McVicker	246 N.W. 385	50
1930	Van Eaton v. Town of Sidney	231 N.W. 475	49
1925	State v. Kendall	203 N.W. 806	47
1926	State v. Webb	210 N.W. 751	45
1925	State v. Poston	203 N.W. 257	39
1935	Townsend v. Armstrong	260 N.W. 17	35
1928	Orr v. Des Moines Electric Light Co.	222 N.W. 560	35
1926	Massie v. Massie	210 N.W. 431	34
1925	In Re Estate of Mott	205 N.W. 770	34
1930	Pagano v. Bechly	232 N.W. 798	33
1926	Langham v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.	208 N.W. 356	32
1928	State v. Marshall	220 N.W. 106	31
1926	Leach v. Beazley	207 N.W. 374	31
1932	Heavilin v. Wendell	241 N.W. 654	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 650 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 Elma G. Albert on?: Elma G. Albert was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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11 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).