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 1934

James W. Kindig

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

James W. Kindig was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1927. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1927–1934 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1927	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kindig authored 418 published opinions for the court (1926–1934), plus 19 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Knutson Ex Rel. Knutson v. Lurie (78 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 Kindig 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
1933	Knutson Ex Rel. Knutson v. Lurie	251 N.W. 147	78
1934	Federal Land Bank v. Wilmarth	252 N.W. 507	61
1932	Wosoba v. Kenyon	243 N.W. 569	50
1932	E. N. Albert v. Maher Brothers' Transfer Co.	243 N.W. 561	49
1933	Lindquist v. Thierman	248 N.W. 504	48
1934	Almquist v. Shenandoah Nurseries, Inc.	254 N.W. 35	47
1928	Hoover v. Iowa State Highway Commission	222 N.W. 438	47
1933	Hittle v. Jones	250 N.W. 689	45
1930	Loftus v. Department of Agriculture of Iowa	232 N.W. 412	43
1928	Murphy v. Iowa Electric Co.	220 N.W. 360	41
1934	Des Moines Joint Stock Land Bank v. Nordholm	253 N.W. 701	39
1929	Stilson v. Ellis	225 N.W. 346	38
1933	Hogan v. Nesbit	246 N.W. 270	35
1930	State v. Manly	233 N.W. 110	32
1931	Bina v. Bina	239 N.W. 68	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 445 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 W. Kindig on?: James W. Kindig 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).