Iowa Constitution
Article V - JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.
§ 10 Judicial districts.
The state shall be
divided into eleven judicial districts; and after the year eighteen
hundred and sixty, the general assembly may reorganize the judicial
districts and increase or diminish the number of districts, or the
number of judges of the said court, and may increase the number of
judges of the supreme court; but such increase or diminution shall not
be more than one district, or one judge of either court, at any one
session; and no reorganization of the districts, or diminution of the
number of judges, shall have the effect of removing a judge from office.
Such reorganization of the districts, or any change in the boundaries
thereof, or increase or diminution of the number of judges, shall take
place every four years thereafter, if necessary, and at no other
time.
At any regular session of the general assembly the state may be divided into the necessary judicial districts for district court purposes, or the said districts may be reorganized and the number of the districts and the judges of said courts increased or diminished; but no reorganization of the districts or diminution of the judges shall have the effect of removing a judge from office.
Paragraph 2 added by Amendment 8 (1884); much of paragraph 1 appears to be superseded by paragraph 2
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