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

Iowa Court of Appeals / Joined 2008 / Active

Richard Doyle

Judge, Iowa Court of Appeals

Richard Doyle is a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Iowa Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Doyle authored 66 published opinions for the court (2009–2018). Most cited: In the Interest of B.T., Minor Child, A.P., Mother (149 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. 66 of these were attributed to Doyle 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
2017	In the Interest of B.T., Minor Child, A.P., Mother†	894 N.W.2d 29	149
2009	In Re the Marriage of Brown†	778 N.W.2d 47	92
2009	Holmes v. State†	775 N.W.2d 733	54
2009	State v. Hallock†	765 N.W.2d 598	49
2013	State v. Lange†	831 N.W.2d 844	46
2016	Patsy C. Albert, in Her Capacity as the Trustee of the Patsy C. Albert Revocable Trust v. Delbert Conger and Ruth Conger†	886 N.W.2d 877	31
2011	Lopez-Penaloza v. State†	804 N.W.2d 537	28
2011	State v. Hunt†	801 N.W.2d 366	28
2017	Marc Ruden v. Kyra Peach†	904 N.W.2d 410	26
2016	State of Iowa v. James Phillip Morgan†	877 N.W.2d 133	24
2016	State of Iowa v. Kendall Chavez Johnson†	887 N.W.2d 178	22
2011	Hill ex rel. Hill v. Damm†	804 N.W.2d 95	17
2012	Dunlap v. Action Warehouse†	824 N.W.2d 545	14
2011	State v. Kehoe†	804 N.W.2d 302	14
2017	State v. Frescoln†	911 N.W.2d 450	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 66 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 is Richard Doyle on?: Richard Doyle is a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals.

Sources

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18 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).