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

Iowa Supreme Court / Joined 1980 / Served to 1993

Louis W. Schultz

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Louis W. Schultz was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–2008
Tenure: 1980–1993 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Central College
Drake University

Judicial Record

In our data, Schultz authored 135 published opinions for the court (1980–1993), plus 44 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Myers (184 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. 92 of these were attributed to Schultz 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
1986	State v. Myers	382 N.W.2d 91	184
1988	State v. Plaster· Dissent†	424 N.W.2d 226	139
1990	Vaughn v. Ag Processing, Inc.	459 N.W.2d 627	96
1989	Niblo v. Parr Manufacturing, Inc.	445 N.W.2d 351	85
1984	Pottebaum v. Hinds	347 N.W.2d 642	83
1984	Tigges v. City of Amess	356 N.W.2d 503	75
1982	State v. Lamp	322 N.W.2d 48	71
1989	Christie v. Rolscreen Co.	448 N.W.2d 447	68
1982	State v. Lucas	323 N.W.2d 228	68
1983	Briner v. Hyslop	337 N.W.2d 858	65
1983	Meier v. State· Dissent†	337 N.W.2d 204	58
1986	State v. Brotherton	384 N.W.2d 375	57
1982	Seeman v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.	322 N.W.2d 35	57
1983	Iowa Glass Depot, Inc. v. Jindrich†	338 N.W.2d 376	56
1988	In the Interest of J.P.B.	419 N.W.2d 387	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 194 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 Louis W. Schultz on?: Louis W. Schultz was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 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).