In 2022, when Judge Trina Thompson was waiting for the Senate to vote on her lifetime appointment as a federal district court judge, she was asked what had given her the idea to pursue the position. Because ...

Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan (Larson) Christensen is following in some giant footsteps – her father’s – and even outdoing him in one respect. But her achievements of becoming the court’s th...

There are plenty of families with multiple generations of judges; you can read about two of them on the other pages of this report. But you won’t find many with multiple generations serving at the same ...