Judges · Iowa Court of Appeals

Samuel P. Langholz

Judge

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About

  • Appointed to this post in 20231
  • No retention vote on record yet. New judges face voters at the first general election after a full year on the bench.

Judge Langholz was appointed to the Iowa Court of Appeals in August 2023. Before his appointment, he practiced law in the Executive Branch of state government for nearly thirteen years, serving as Chief Deputy Attorney General, Assistant Solicitor General, Senior Legal Counsel to the Governor, Chief Administrative Law Judge, and State…

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.