Terms Used In Iowa Code 607A.26

• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• Clerk: means clerk of the district court or the clerk's designee. See Iowa Code 607A.3
• Court: means the district court of this state and includes, when the context requires, a judicial officer as defined in section 602. See Iowa Code 607A.3
• Identification: means the random drawing of names in a manner immune to any subjective bias so that no recognizable class of the population from which names are being randomly drawn can be purposefully included or excluded. See Iowa Code 607A.3
• Records: includes probate and other official public records, as well as records in the office of the county recorder. See Iowa Code 614.29
• State: includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States. See Iowa Code 633D.2