Official Records
The records of the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Iowa are included among Record Group 21 at the:
National Archives at Kansas City
400 West Pershing Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Email: kansascity.archives@nara.gov
A guide to the holdings of the regional archives is available at: https://www.archives.gov/kansas-city/holdings
A published description of the records is also available in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, 1995 (http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/index.html ).
Bibliography
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McNeely, Lee. "Northern Judicial District of Iowa." Annals of Iowa 30 (October 1949): 105-22.
Mills, George, and Richard W. Peterson. No One is Above the Law: The Story of Southern Iowa's Federal Court. Council Bluffs, Iowa: South Side Press of the Midlands, 1994.
Peterson, Richard W. The Court Moves West: A Study of the United States Supreme Court Decisions of Appeals from the United States Circuit and District Court of Iowa, 1846-1882 . Council Bluffs, Iowa: South Side Press of the Midlands, 1988.
Reed, Nicholas F. "Southern Judicial District of Iowa." Annals of Iowa 30 (October 1949): 123-24.
Rogers, Aaron and Margaret Callahan. No One is Above the Law: The Story of Southern Iowa's Federal Court, 2nd ed. Des Moines, Iowa: Lexicon Content Marketing, 2018.