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 1939 / Served to 1946

Frederick M. Miller

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Frederick M. Miller was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1939–1946 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 271 published opinions for the court (1870–1946), plus 20 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Stewart v. Bd. of Super. of Polk County (82 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. 4 of these were attributed to Miller 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
1870	Stewart v. Bd. of Super. of Polk County	30 Iowa 9	82
1943	Lawson v. Fordyce· Dissent	12 N.W.2d 301	53
1941	State v. Benson	300 N.W. 275	53
1944	Gilchrist v. Bierring	14 N.W.2d 724	45
1945	State v. Mart	20 N.W.2d 63	37
1942	Mann v. Des Moines Railway Co.· Concurrence	7 N.W.2d 45	37
1938	State v. Graff	290 N.W. 97	37
1944	Thuente v. Hart Motors	15 N.W.2d 622	36
1945	In Re Estate of Cocklin	17 N.W.2d 129	34
1938	Keller v. Dodds	277 N.W. 467	32
1942	State Ex Rel. Weede v. Iowa Southern Utilities Co. of Delaware· Dissent	2 N.W.2d 372	31
1941	Cook v. Hannah· Dissent	297 N.W. 262	31
1940	Martin Bros. Box Co. v. Fritz	292 N.W. 143	31
1942	State v. Cowen· Concurrence	3 N.W.2d 176	29
1940	Miller v. Schuster	289 N.W. 702	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 298 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 M. Miller on?: Frederick M. Miller 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).