How do judges of the Iowa Supreme Court reach the bench?

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

Iowa Supreme Court / Joined 2001 / Served to 2010

Michael J. Streit

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Michael J. Streit was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2010 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Iowa
University of San Diego

Judicial Record

In our data, Streit authored 213 published opinions for the court (2001–2010), plus 4 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: In The Interest Of J.e., Minor Child, R.e., Mother Vs. State Of Iowa (816 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. 31 of these were attributed to Streit 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
2006	In The Interest Of J.e., Minor Child, R.e., Mother Vs. State Of Iowa†	723 N.W.2d 793	816
2006	State v. Straw	709 N.W.2d 128	597
2002	In the Interest of C.H.†	652 N.W.2d 144	281
2007	In Re Marriage of Fennelly & Breckenfelder	737 N.W.2d 97	241
2010	State Of Iowa Vs. Robert L. Hanes†	790 N.W.2d 545	192
2006	State v. Ondayog	722 N.W.2d 778	187
2006	State v. Tate	710 N.W.2d 237	154
2001	State v. Naujoks	637 N.W.2d 101	131
2003	State v. Polly	657 N.W.2d 462	125
2006	State v. Leckington	713 N.W.2d 208	116
2003	State v. Liddell	672 N.W.2d 805	112
2003	In the Interest of K.C.†	660 N.W.2d 29	110
2005	McElroy v. State	703 N.W.2d 385	105
2004	Iowa Supreme Court Board of Professional Ethics & Conduct v. Lett	674 N.W.2d 139	101
2010	State Of Iowa Vs. Mark Thomas Hennings†	791 N.W.2d 828	98

Showing the 15 most-cited of 223 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 Michael J. Streit on?: Michael J. Streit was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).