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

Iowa Supreme Court / Joined 1958 / Served to 1960

Harry G. Garrett

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Harry G. Garrett was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1971
Tenure: 1958–1960 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Garrett authored 43 published opinions for the court (1959–1960), plus 5 dissents. Most cited: State v. McNamara (57 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. 10 of these were attributed to Garrett 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
1960	State v. McNamara	104 N.W.2d 568	57
1959	Redfield v. Iowa State Highway Commission	99 N.W.2d 413	43
1959	Lamasters v. Springer	99 N.W.2d 300	31
1959	Knott v. Rawlings	96 N.W.2d 900	30
1960	Olney v. Hutt	105 N.W.2d 515	28
1959	Lampe v. Lagomarcino-Grupe Company	100 N.W.2d 1	28
1960	Franzen v. Dimock Gould & Co.	101 N.W.2d 4	26
1960	Lockwood v. Wiltgen· Dissent†	101 N.W.2d 724	22
1960	De Sauvage v. State Tax Commission	104 N.W.2d 600	20
1960	Rauch v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.	104 N.W.2d 607	20
1960	Drosos v. Drosos· Dissent†	103 N.W.2d 167	17
1960	State Ex Rel. Schilling v. Community School District	106 N.W.2d 80	16
1960	Monroe Community School District v. Marion County Board of Education	103 N.W.2d 746	16
1959	Schofield v. White	95 N.W.2d 40	15
1960	Van Patten v. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific R. Co.	102 N.W.2d 898	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 48 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 Harry G. Garrett on?: Harry G. Garrett was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

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2 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).