On the last day of the 2019 legislative session, Gov. Reynold, as part of budget bill, SF638, signed legislation that changes Iowa’s 57-year old judicial nominating system. This system, called the “gold standard for the entire United States,” (Dan Brown, Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers, in an Article by James Q. Lynch in The Gazette on February 6, 2019), was put into place in a bipartisan manner by a constitutional amendment in 1969.