The Iowa Senate Judiciary Committee passed a reform of the judicial selection process, including allowing more applicants to be considered. Senator Garrett tells KNIA News one of his goals this session was to reform the entire selection process, and with a lack of qualified applicants to be judges, this will allow more to be selected.

“Currently the law is that a person wanting to be a judge has to live in the judicial district that he or she would be serving in, this bill that i’m talking about expands that so you could apply so if you were in an adjoining county so that will give us a bigger pool of applicants and give the governor more choices as to which judge she wants to pick.”

The bill will now go before the whole Senate for vote.