United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
25 judges profiled from their own signed orders: how each rules on motions, with the orders quoted.
John Alfred JarveyRetired 2022
District judge, appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)
James Madison LoveRetired 1891
District judge, appointed by Franklin Pierce (Democratic)
Stephanie Marie Rose
appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic)
Harold Duane VietorRetired 2016
District judge, appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
William Corwin StuartRetired 2010
District judge, appointed by Richard Nixon (Republican)
Carroll O. SwitzerRetired 1950
District judge, appointed by Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
Charles Almon DeweyRetired 1958
District judge, appointed by Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
Martin Joseph WadeRetired 1931
District judge, appointed by Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
Roy Laverne StephensonRetired 1971
District judge, appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
Smith McPhersonRetired 1915
District judge, appointed by William McKinley (Republican)
William Francis RileyRetired 1956
District judge, appointed by Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
John Simson WoolsonRetired 1899
District judge, appointed by Benjamin Harrison (Republican)
Rebecca Leigh Goodgame Ebinger
appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic)
Stephen Henley Locher
appointed by Joe Biden (Democratic)
Edwin Richley HicklinRetired 1963
District judge, appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
Helen C. Adams
Magistrate judge
Robert William PrattRetired 2026
appointed by Bill Clinton (Democratic)
Stephen B. Jackson, Jr.
Magistrate judge
Thomas J. Shields
Magistrate judge
William P. Kelly
Magistrate judge
Charles Robert WolleRetired 2022
appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Ronald Earl LongstaffNo longer serving
appointed by George H. W. Bush (Republican)
Ross A. WaltersNo longer serving
Magistrate judge
Celeste F. BremerNo longer serving
Magistrate judge
James Edward Gritzner
appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)