Chief: Elected by the justices from among their own members for a two-year term; full justice terms are eight years (after an initial one-year period before the first retention vote)..
Adopted 1857. Its declaration of rights sits in Article I (Bill of Rights). This court has the final word on what the Iowa constitution means.
Primacy, interprets its own constitution first
How a state reads its own rights provisions relative to the federal floor, lockstep vs departure.
State-court structure and selection methods are from official and reference sources; the justice roster is point-in-time. Civibrief carries each state's highest court (lower state courts are out of scope for now).
