DES MOINES – The State Judicial Nominating Commission has selected a slate of six nominees to fill the two vacancies on the Iowa Court of Appeals.
Public interviews of 30 applicants were completed after Chief Judge David Danilson retired on January 4, 2019, and Judge Christopher McDonald filled the Supreme Court vacancy on March 7, 2019.
The nominees are:
Mary Chicchelly
District Court Judge
Sixth Judicial District
Cedar Rapids
Jean Dickson
Attorney
Betty, Neuman & McMahon, P.L.C.
Bettendorf
Myron Gookin
District Court Judge
Eighth Judicial District
Fairfield
David May
District Court Judge
Fifth Judicial District
Polk City
Julie Schumacher
District Court Judge
Third Judicial District
Schleswig
Sharon Soorholtz Greer
Attorney
Cartwright, Druker & Ryden
Marshalltown
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has thirty days in which to make the appointments to the court from this slate of nominees. The application for each applicant and archived video of each of the applicant interviews is posted on the Judicial Nominating Commissions website at: https://www.iowajnc.gov/state-commission/state-members-and-vacancies/candidates-for-court-of-appeals-vacancies