An Iowa judge has been charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after witnesses say she drove the wrong way on a highway Tuesday while passed out behind the wheel. Adria Kester, chief judge of the state’s Second Judicial District, was released from the Boone County Jail on Wednesday morning. A criminal complaint says motorists called 911 after 8 p.m. Tuesday night to report a truck slowly driving eastbound in the westbound lanes on U.S. Highway 30 near Boone. One of the witnesses reported the driver looked unconscious and slumped over the steering wheel, and drove into the highway median. A deputy with the Boone County sheriff’s office says he found Kester in the driver’s seat appearing to be heavily intoxicated and unsteady. Court records do not list an attorney for Kester.
