is no Iowa case law that answers the question whether a college dean is a “public official,” there has developed considerable Iowa case law addressing the “public official” issue generally. See, e.g., State v. Spaulding, 102 Iowa 639, 649-50, 72 N.W. 288, 291 (1897) (treasurer of the commissioners of pharmacy was not a “public officer” within the meaning of statute defining the crime of embezzlement of public money by a “public officer”); McKinley v. Clarke County, 228 Iowa 1185, 1186-87, 293 N.W. 449, 450 (1940) (addressing whether a county engineer was an “employee” or an “official” for purposes of determining widow’s eligibility for death benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act); Whitney v. Rural Indep. Sch. Dist. No. 4 of Lafayette, 232 Iowa 61, 71, 4 N.W.2d 394, 398 (1942) (<HOLDING>). In Hutton v. State, 235 Iowa 52, 16 N.W.2d 18
holding that the trial courts authority to initiate workers compensation benefits before the final adjudication was not divested by the legislature and was consistent with the stated purpose of the workers compensation act holding that a schoolteacher elected by the school board was not an official because she was not required to give bond or take an oath none of the statutes impose upon her the exercise of discretion in any way they delegate no sovereign power to her holding that a schoolteacher elected by the school board was an employee not an official and therefore entitled to benefits under the workers compensation act holding that when an employee suffers an injury from an unexplained fall while the employee is on the job and performing the duties of his employment that injury is eligible for compensation under the workers compensation act holding that an agencys determination on a workers compensation claim was entitled to deference