Statewide Iowa — The process of drawing new maps for Iowa’s congressional and legislative districts is underway. The non-partisan Legislative Services Agency reconfigures district lines every 10 years, based on new population estimates.
The US Census Bureau released those numbers Thursday. Jean Lloyd-Jones was president of the Iowa League of Women Voters when the group was deciding whether to join a lawsuit that challenged the maps drawn back in 1971.
The Iowa Supreme Court overturned the 1971 redistricting plan the Republican-controlled legislature developed. Lloyd-Jones says the testimony of Betty Kitzman of Ames, a League of Women Voters lobbyist, was critical to the case.
Lloyd-Jones made her comments during a 2018 forum about Iowa’s redistricting process that was broadcast on C-SPAN. The Iowa Supreme Court tossed out the plan approved by the 1971 legislature and the justices consulted with an attorney in the Legislative Services Bureau to draw up the congressional and legislative district maps used in that decade.
