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 1978 / Served to 1982

Robert G. Allbee

Justice, Iowa Supreme Court

Robert G. Allbee was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1928 · age 98
Tenure: 1978–1982 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Iowa Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Allbee authored 26 published opinions for the court (1978–1982), plus 10 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Jackson County Public Hospital v. Public Employment Relations Board (124 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. 23 of these were attributed to Allbee 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
1979	Jackson County Public Hospital v. Public Employment Relations Board	280 N.W.2d 426	124
1981	Barnhill v. Davis· Dissent†	300 N.W.2d 104	113
1981	Weitl v. Moes	311 N.W.2d 259	106
1981	Thompson v. Bohlken· Concurrence†	312 N.W.2d 501	93
1980	State v. Fluhr	287 N.W.2d 857	66
1981	Fundermann v. Mickelson· Concurrence†	304 N.W.2d 790	65
1980	State v. Conner	292 N.W.2d 682	60
1980	Citizens First National Bank v. Hoyt	297 N.W.2d 329	52
1981	State of Iowa v. Spaulding· Dissent†	313 N.W.2d 878	48
1979	State v. Ege	274 N.W.2d 350	47
1980	Fuller v. Buhrow	292 N.W.2d 672	37
1979	Warder & Lee Elevator, Inc. v. Britten· Dissent†	274 N.W.2d 339	34
1979	Cedar Rapids Community School v. Cady· Dissent†	278 N.W.2d 298	33
1981	Heyer v. Peterson	307 N.W.2d 1	28
1980	State v. Johnson	291 N.W.2d 6	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 41 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 Robert G. Allbee on?: Robert G. Allbee was a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).