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 1927 / Served to 1932

Henry F. Wagner

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Henry F. Wagner was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1927. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1927–1932 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1927	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wagner authored 253 published opinions for the court (1927–1932), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Siesseger v. Puth (97 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. 1 of these was attributed to Wagner 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
1931	Siesseger v. Puth· Dissent	239 N.W. 46	97
1929	Kyle v. Greene High School	226 N.W. 71	60
1931	Neessen v. Armstrong	239 N.W. 56	48
1929	State v. Woodruff	225 N.W. 254	44
1932	Bookhart v. Greenlease-Lied Motor Co.	244 N.W. 721	42
1932	Shaw Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. Des Moines Dress Club	245 N.W. 231	41
1931	Duncan v. Rhomberg	236 N.W. 638	35
1930	Iowa National Bank v. Stewart· Dissent	232 N.W. 445	31
1931	Raines v. Wilson	239 N.W. 36	29
1927	State v. Harding	216 N.W. 642	29
1931	Sergeant v. Challis	238 N.W. 442	27
1931	Ege v. Born	236 N.W. 75	26
1932	Buchanan v. Hurd Creamery Co.	246 N.W. 41	25
1929	Jefferson County Farm Bureau v. Sherman	226 N.W. 182	25
1932	State v. Johnson	245 N.W. 728	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 258 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 Henry F. Wagner on?: Henry F. Wagner was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).