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 1933 / Served to 1938

John W. kintzinger

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

John W. kintzinger was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1933–1938 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, kintzinger authored 238 published opinions for the court (1932–1938), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Des Moines Joint Stock Land Bank v. Nordholm (39 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 kintzinger 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
1934	Des Moines Joint Stock Land Bank v. Nordholm· Dissent	253 N.W. 701	39
1933	Kadlec v. Al. Johnson Construction Co.	252 N.W. 103	37
1937	Pearson v. Butts	276 N.W. 65	31
1936	Morrison v. Patterson	267 N.W. 704	31
1936	Huffman v. King	268 N.W. 144	30
1935	Schwind v. Gibson	260 N.W. 853	30
1934	Boles v. Hotel Maytag Co.	253 N.W. 515	29
1933	Gardner v. Trustees of Main Street Methodist Episcopal Church	250 N.W. 740	29
1934	Albrecht v. Waterloo Construction Co.	257 N.W. 183	28
1933	Lorimer v. Hutchinson Ice Cream Co.	384 N.W. 220	28
1935	Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Co. v. City of Villisca	261 N.W. 423	27
1934	McKeever v. Batcheler	257 N.W. 567	27
1937	Shirkey v. Keokuk County· Separate	275 N.W. 706	26
1934	Preston v. Howell	257 N.W. 415	26
1934	Girard v. Anderson	257 N.W. 400	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 245 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 John W. kintzinger on?: John W. kintzinger 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).