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 1921 / Served to 1932

Frederick F. Faville

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Frederick F. Faville was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1921–1932 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Faville authored 713 published opinions for the court (1921–1932), plus 17 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Tonn (98 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. 279 of these were attributed to Faville 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
1923	State v. Tonn†	195 Iowa 94	98
1932	Barnett v. Collection Service Co.	242 N.W. 25	60
1931	State Ex Rel. Fletcher v. District Court· Dissent	238 N.W. 290	57
1929	Wissenburg v. Bradley	229 N.W. 205	50
1922	Keeran v. Spurgeon Mercantile Co.†	194 Iowa 1240	48
1927	Leach v. Commercial Savings Bank	213 N.W. 517	43
1926	McCornack v. Central State Bank· Concurrence	211 N.W. 542	43
1923	Curry v. Bickley†	196 Iowa 827	43
1930	Iowa Limestone Co. v. Cook	233 N.W. 682	42
1930	Johnson County Savings Bank v. City of Creston· Dissent	237 N.W. 507	42
1921	Adams v. Smith†	192 Iowa 78	37
1924	State v. Burris· Dissent†	198 Iowa 1156	36
1921	Payne v. Hall†	192 Iowa 780	36
1923	State v. Grba†	196 Iowa 241	32
1923	State v. Rowley†	197 Iowa 977	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 735 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 Frederick F. Faville on?: Frederick F. Faville 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).