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

Iowa Court of Appeals / Joined 1994 / Served to 2008

Terry L. Huitink

Judge, Iowa Court of Appeals

Terry L. Huitink was a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1952–2014
Tenure: 1994–2008 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Iowa Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Iowa

Judicial Record

In our data, Huitink authored 120 published opinions for the court (1994–2008), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: In Re the Marriage of Berning (188 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. 67 of these were attributed to Huitink 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
2007	In Re the Marriage of Berning	745 N.W.2d 90	188
1997	In Re the Marriage of Hettinga	574 N.W.2d 920	57
1997	In Re the Marriage of Daniels· Dissent†	568 N.W.2d 51	54
1998	In Re the Marriage of Walton	577 N.W.2d 869	52
1998	In Re the Marriage of Wendell· Concurrence†	581 N.W.2d 197	47
1997	In the Interests of D.S.†	563 N.W.2d 12	41
1996	In Re the Marriage of O'Rourke	547 N.W.2d 864	38
2001	State v. Adney	639 N.W.2d 246	37
1996	In Re the Marriage of Kunkel†	555 N.W.2d 250	37
2005	Montgomery v. Wells	708 N.W.2d 704	34
1997	In Re Marriage of Gonzalez†	561 N.W.2d 94	28
1999	In Re the Marriage of Vieth	591 N.W.2d 639	25
2007	In the Interest of Z.H.†	740 N.W.2d 648	23
1994	In Re the Marriage of Rykhoek†	525 N.W.2d 1	22
2001	State v. O'Shea	634 N.W.2d 150	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 125 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 Terry L. Huitink on?: Terry L. Huitink was a Judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals.

Sources

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14 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).