How do judges of the Iowa Court of Appeals reach the bench?

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

Iowa Court of Appeals / Joined 1999 / Served to 2009

John J. Miller

Judge, Iowa Court of Appeals

John J. Miller was a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1999. They previously served on the California Court of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2009 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1999	Iowa Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 70 published opinions for the court (1979–2009), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Miller v. Elite Insurance (127 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. 23 of these were attributed to Miller 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
1980	Miller v. Elite Insurance	100 Cal. App. 3d 739	127
1981	Alma W. v. Oakland Unified School District	123 Cal. App. 3d 133	76
1980	Ion Equipment Corp. v. Nelson	110 Cal. App. 3d 868	57
1982	People v. Masten	137 Cal. App. 3d 579	52
1980	Alexander v. Abbey of the Chimes	104 Cal. App. 3d 39	45
1981	Rose v. City of Hayward	126 Cal. App. 3d 926	40
1982	People v. Wolozon	138 Cal. App. 3d 456	32
1980	People v. Kaiser	113 Cal. App. 3d 754	26
1982	In Re Marriage of Clements	134 Cal. App. 3d 737	25
2007	State v. Nosa†	738 N.W.2d 658	23
1979	Estate of Coate	98 Cal. App. 3d 982	23
1982	Froid v. Fox	132 Cal. App. 3d 832	22
1980	People v. Childs	112 Cal. App. 3d 374	21
1980	People v. Butler	104 Cal. App. 3d 868	20
1982	People v. Green· Concurrence†	130 Cal. App. 3d 1	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 76 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was John J. Miller on?: John J. Miller was a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals.

Sources

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10 years on the Iowa Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).