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

Iowa Supreme Court / Joined 1986 / Served to 2003

Linda K. Neuman

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Linda K. Neuman was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: 1986–2003 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Neuman authored 137 published opinions for the court (1986–2003), plus 22 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: In the Interests of A.C. (273 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. 57 of these were attributed to Neuman 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
1987	In the Interests of A.C.· Dissent†	415 N.W.2d 609	273
1989	In Re the Marriage of Francis	442 N.W.2d 59	159
2002	In the Interest of D.D.†	653 N.W.2d 359	146
2001	Santi v. Santi	633 N.W.2d 312	80
2001	In Re Detention of Williams	628 N.W.2d 447	71
2001	State v. Lumadue	622 N.W.2d 302	67
2001	Walsh v. Nelson	622 N.W.2d 499	67
2001	Sain v. Cedar Rapids Community School District· Dissent†	626 N.W.2d 115	62
1991	Hoefer v. Wisconsin Education Ass'n Insurance Trust	470 N.W.2d 336	60
1995	In Re the Marriage of Kleist	538 N.W.2d 273	59
2002	United Fire & Casualty Co. v. Shelly Funeral Home, Inc.	642 N.W.2d 648	58
1987	State v. Weir	414 N.W.2d 327	50
2001	State v. Heard· Concurrence†	636 N.W.2d 227	49
1988	Cookies Food Products, Inc. v. Lakes Warehouse Distributing, Inc.†	430 N.W.2d 447	49
1993	State v. Torres· Dissent†	495 N.W.2d 678	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 168 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 Linda K. Neuman on?: Linda K. Neuman was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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17 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).