Iowa Constitution
Article V - JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.
§ 18 Salaries — qualifications — retirement.
Judges of the supreme court and district court shall receive salaries
from the state, shall be members of the bar of the state and shall have
such other qualifications as may be prescribed by law. Judges of the
supreme court and district court shall be ineligible to any other office
of the state while serving on said court and for two years thereafter,
except that district judges shall be eligible to the office of supreme
court judge. Other judicial officers shall be selected in such manner
and shall have such tenure, compensation and other qualification as may
be fixed by law. The general assembly shall prescribe mandatory
retirement for judges of the supreme court and district court at a
specified age and shall provide for adequate retirement compensation.
Retired judges may be subject to special assignment to temporary
judicial duties by the supreme court, as provided by law.
Added by Amendment 21 (1962)
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