Opinion ID: 1057658
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Heading: The City Charter

Text: Initially, the City Charter required that the superintendent serve at the “will and pleasure” of the Board of Mayor and Alderman. A “pleasure appointment” is “[t]he assignment of someone to employment that can be taken away at any time, with no requirement for notice or a hearing.” Black’s Law Dictionary 1192 (8th ed. 2004). 6 John Forrest Dillon served as Judge of Iowa’s Seventh Judicial Circuit from 1858 to 1862. For eight years thereafter he served on the Iowa Supreme Court before being appointed by President Grant to what eventually became the Eighth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. See Clinton v. Cedar Rapids & the Missouri River R.R., 24 Iowa 455 (1868); see also Hunter v. City of Pittsburgh, 207 U.S. 161, 179-80 (1907); Merrill v. Town of Montecello, 138 U.S. 673, 681 (1891). But see Berent v. City of Iowa City, 738 N.W .2d 193, 196-97 (Iowa 2007) (explaining that a later Iowa constitutional amendment “reversed the Dillon Rule”). -9-