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

Iowa Supreme Court / Joined 1987 / Served to 1998

James H. Andreasen

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

James H. Andreasen was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1987–1998 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Andreasen authored 65 published opinions for the court (1988–1999), plus 7 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: In Re the Marriage of Powell (99 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. 38 of these were attributed to Andreasen 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
1991	In Re the Marriage of Powell	474 N.W.2d 531	99
1992	State v. Tracy· Dissent†	482 N.W.2d 675	69
1997	Jones v. Lake Park Care Center, Inc.	569 N.W.2d 369	54
1990	Callahan v. State· Concurrence†	464 N.W.2d 268	47
1996	Weinhold v. Wolff· Concurrence†	555 N.W.2d 454	46
1994	State v. Rojas†	524 N.W.2d 659	44
1989	Mathias v. Glandon	448 N.W.2d 443	34
1996	In the Interest of G.J.A.	547 N.W.2d 3	33
1998	Ranney v. Parawax Co., Inc.· Dissent†	582 N.W.2d 152	32
1995	State v. Simpson	528 N.W.2d 627	32
1992	Wolf v. City of Ely	493 N.W.2d 846	30
1991	Committee on Professional Ethics & Conduct of the Iowa State Bar Ass'n v. Wenger	469 N.W.2d 678	29
1988	In Re the Marriage of Sjulin†	431 N.W.2d 773	29
1998	State v. Schutz	579 N.W.2d 317	28
1992	Walker v. Mlakar· Dissent†	489 N.W.2d 401	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 75 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 James H. Andreasen on?: James H. Andreasen 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).