Judges · Iowa Court of Appeals

Mary Tabor

Chief Judge

About

Appointed to this post in 2010¹
No retention vote on record yet. New judges face voters at the first general election after a full year on the bench.

Chief Judge Tabor was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 2010 and the members of the court selected her as chief judge in August 2024. She was born in Maquoketa and raised on her family's farm in Jackson County. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa in…

Full biography on iowacourts.gov

Retention votes

No retention votes on record (Iowa Funnel has them from 2020 for justices and 2022 for other judges).

Opinions written

None on record yet.

Supreme Court opinions since November 2017; Court of Appeals opinions from November 2026.