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 ...

John Burdette Pratt remembers being wary. It was spring 1990 and he had just been appointed to fill a newly created judgeship in his hometown of Vale, Oregon. It’s a small town in the extreme eastern pa...