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 1932 / Served to 1933

Hubert Utterback

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Hubert Utterback was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1932. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1880–1942
Tenure: 1932–1933

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1932	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Drake University

Judicial Record

In our data, Utterback authored 6 published opinions for the court (1933), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Bernstein v. City of Marshalltown (15 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1933	Bernstein v. City of Marshalltown· Dissent	248 N.W. 26	15
1933	Boquette v. Boquette	247 N.W. 255	15
1933	State v. Grimes· Dissent	247 N.W. 664	13
1933	State v. Anderson	247 N.W. 306	6
1933	Marsh v. Hollowell	247 N.W. 304	5
1933	Ash v. Board of Civil Service Commissioners	247 N.W. 264	2
1933	Willey v. Andrew	247 N.W. 501	0
1933	Iiams v. Andrew	247 N.W. 277	0

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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 Hubert Utterback on?: Hubert Utterback was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

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Joined the court in 1932. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).