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

Iowa Supreme Court / Joined 1934 / Served to 1936

Leon W. Powers

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Leon W. Powers was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1959
Tenure: 1934–1936 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Powers authored 40 published opinions for the court (1935–1936), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Hundling (37 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1936	State v. Hundling	264 N.W. 608	37
1935	Wood v. Wood	262 N.W. 778	31
1935	Jordan v. Schantz	264 N.W. 259	30
1935	State v. Harper	258 N.W. 886	29
1936	Hoover v. Independent School District	264 N.W. 611	28
1936	Berg v. Berg	264 N.W. 821	24
1935	Fortman v. McBride	263 N.W. 845	21
1935	Butler v. City of Des Moines	258 N.W. 755	21
1935	Shepard v. Carnation Milk Co.	262 N.W. 110	20
1935	Andrew v. Union Savings Bank & Trust Co.	263 N.W. 495	19
1935	Enfield v. Butler· Dissent	264 N.W. 546	18
1935	Darr v. Porte	263 N.W. 240	15
1935	In Re Estate of McClain	262 N.W. 666	15
1935	Zeigler v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States	259 N.W. 769	15
1935	Bowen v. Bowen	258 N.W. 882	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 42 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 Leon W. Powers on?: Leon W. Powers was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

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1 year 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).