(Boone, IA) -- A Iowa Chief judge in charge of the state's largest judicial district has been charged with drunk driving.
The Boone County Sheriff says Adria Kester was arrested after several calls were made to 911 around 8:22 PM Tuesday evening. Callers reported a vehicle driving the wrong way on Highway 30 near Boone.
The 55-year-old is the chief judge of Iowa's Second Judicial District. She was released from jail Wednesday morning. Court documents say Kester appeared slumped over the wheel and slowly drifting into the median. A witness says she got out of her car to check on Kester, but couldn't open her door. That witness says she climbed in Kester's back window to put the vehicle in park. Kester refused to take a field sobriety test.
Kester has a court date December 22.
The Second Judicial District is the largest geographic district in the state, comprised of 22 counties: Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Marshall, Mitchell, Pocahontas, Sac, Story, Webster, Winnebago, Worth, and Wright. The district has 17 district court judges, 11 district associate court judges, five senior judges, 29 part-time magistrates, and 161 employees.