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 1969 / Served to 1994

Leo Oxberger

Judge, Iowa Court of Appeals

Leo Oxberger was a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1969–1994 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Iowa Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Drake University
Drake University

Judicial Record

In our data, Oxberger authored 683 published opinions for the court (1979–1994), plus 11 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Hastings (160 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. 63 of these were attributed to Oxberger 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
1990	State v. Hastings	466 N.W.2d 697	160
1987	In Re the Marriage of Kern	408 N.W.2d 387	125
1981	In Re the Marriage of Castle	312 N.W.2d 147	124
1983	In Re the Marriage of Hayne	334 N.W.2d 347	85
1982	In Re the Marriage of Lattig	318 N.W.2d 811	76
1983	In Re the Marriage of Giles	338 N.W.2d 544	74
1985	In Re the Marriage of Ullerich	367 N.W.2d 297	62
1979	Mosebach v. Blythe	282 N.W.2d 755	61
1984	In Re Marriage of Byall	353 N.W.2d 103	56
1993	State v. Smith	508 N.W.2d 101	52
1991	In Re the Marriage of Russell	473 N.W.2d 244	49
1990	Irons v. Community State Bank	461 N.W.2d 849	49
1988	In the Interest of R.M.	431 N.W.2d 196	45
1989	McCracken v. Edward D. Jones & Co.	445 N.W.2d 375	44
1987	In Re the Marriage of Dahl	418 N.W.2d 358	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 700 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 Leo Oxberger on?: Leo Oxberger was a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals.

Sources

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24 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).