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 2001 / Served to 2013

Larry J. Eisenhauer

Judge, Iowa Court of Appeals

Larry J. Eisenhauer was a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2013 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Iowa Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Emporia State University
Drake University

Judicial Record

In our data, Eisenhauer authored 15 published opinions for the court (2002–2011). Most cited: In Re the Marriage of Wade (22 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. 11 of these were attributed to Eisenhauer 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
2010	In Re the Marriage of Wade	780 N.W.2d 563	22
2008	Hammes v. JCLB PROPERTIES, LLC†	764 N.W.2d 552	12
2011	John Deere Dubuque Works v. Caven†	804 N.W.2d 297	8
2008	State v. Tapia†	751 N.W.2d 405	7
2002	State v. Schweitzer†	646 N.W.2d 117	7
2007	In the Interest of B.A.†	737 N.W.2d 665	5
2010	State v. Garcia	788 N.W.2d 1	4
2004	In the Interest of J.O.†	675 N.W.2d 28	4
2008	Powell v. State	766 N.W.2d 259	3
2009	Stewart v. Sisson†	766 N.W.2d 800	1
2003	Davison v. State†	671 N.W.2d 519	1
2008	State v. Collier†	759 N.W.2d 813	0
2007	Swantz v. Colby†	745 N.W.2d 95	0
2006	Borlaug v. City of Cedar Falls†	710 N.W.2d 541	0
2004	In Re JO	675 N.W.2d 28	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 15 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 Larry J. Eisenhauer on?: Larry J. Eisenhauer was a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals.

Sources

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12 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).