2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 46 - NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF JUDGES
46.16 - TERMS OF JUDGES.

        46.16  TERMS OF JUDGES.
         1.  Subject to sections 602.1610 and 602.1612 and to removal for
      cause:
         a.  The initial term of office of judges of the supreme court,
      court of appeals, and district court shall be for one year after
      appointment and until January 1 following the next judicial election
      after expiration of such year; and
         b.  The regular term of office of judges of the supreme court
      retained at a judicial election shall be eight years, and of judges
      of the court of appeals and district court so retained shall be six
      years, from the expiration of their initial or previous regular term
      as the case may be.
         2.  Subject to removal for cause, the initial term of office of a
      district associate judge shall be for one year after appointment and
      until January 1 following the next judicial election after expiration
      of such year, and the regular term of office of a district associate
      judge retained at a judicial election shall be six years from the
      expiration of the initial or previous regular term, as the case may
      be.
         3.  Subject to removal for cause, the initial term of office of a
      full-time associate juvenile judge or a full-time associate probate
      judge shall be for one year after appointment and until January 1
      following the next judicial election after expiration of such year,
      and the regular term of office of a full-time associate juvenile
      judge or a full- time associate probate judge retained at a judicial
      election shall be six years from the expiration of the initial or
      previous regular term, as the case may be.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C66, 71, § 46.16; C73, 75, 77, 79, § 46.16, 602.29; C81, § 46.16]
      

         Section History: Recent Form

         83 Acts, ch 186, § 10022, 10201; 99 Acts, ch 93, §1, 15; 2003
      Acts, ch 151, §3, 65; 2008 Acts, ch 1031, §22
         Referred to in § 602.6305, 602.7103C, 633.20C