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 1983 / Served to 1990

Maynard Hayden

Judge, Iowa Court of Appeals

Maynard Hayden was a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1990 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Iowa Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hayden authored 247 published opinions for the court (1983–1996), plus 5 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: In the Interest of L.G. (145 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. 85 of these were attributed to Hayden 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
1995	In the Interest of L.G.	532 N.W.2d 478	145
1994	In the Interest of T.J.O.	527 N.W.2d 417	86
1994	In Re the Marriage of Brainard	523 N.W.2d 611	70
1995	In the Interest of R.R.K.	544 N.W.2d 274	53
1994	State v. Thomas	520 N.W.2d 311	53
1996	In Re Marriage of Liebich	547 N.W.2d 844	35
1984	Blong v. Snyder	361 N.W.2d 312	26
1993	Netteland v. Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co.	510 N.W.2d 162	24
1993	State v. Tompkins	507 N.W.2d 736	24
1994	In the Interest of C.M.	526 N.W.2d 562	23
1989	In Re the Marriage of Downing	432 N.W.2d 692	23
1988	State v. Henderson	435 N.W.2d 394	23
1986	Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Cedar Rapids v. Lala· Concurrence†	392 N.W.2d 179	23
1990	Fierro v. Hoel· Dissent†	465 N.W.2d 669	22
1994	In Re the Marriage of Miller	524 N.W.2d 442	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 257 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 Maynard Hayden on?: Maynard Hayden was a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals.

Sources

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7 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).