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5 unusual facts about Iowa Supreme Court


Charles Robert Wolle

Charles Robert Wolle (born 1935) is a former justice of the Iowa Supreme Court who currently serves as a senior federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.

Daryl Hecht

Daryl L. Hecht is a justice on the Iowa Supreme Court and past president of Iowa Trial Lawyers Association.

Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development

He also served as Legislative Assistant for Representative Leonard Boswell, focusing primarily on Rep. Boswell’s work on the House Agriculture Committee, and as a Clerk for Justice Jerry Larson of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Jerry Behn

He called for voters to vote against retention for those Iowa Supreme Court justices who decided that Iowa's Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional in Varnum v. Brien.

Judith Ellen Foster

She was the first woman to practice law in Iowa, and was one of the first women to be admitted to practice in the Iowa Supreme Court.


John F. Kinney

He served as Justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa, twice as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah and one term as the Territory of Utah's Delegate in the House of Representatives of the 38th Congress.

Leo Hoegh

In 1953, he was appointed Iowa Attorney General by Governor William Beardsley, filling a position created by Beardsley's appointment of Robert L. Larson to the Iowa Supreme Court.


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