An Iowa judge pleaded guilty about a month after she was busted driving the wrong way down a highway and appeared to be passed out as she crashed into a median.

Adria Kester, the chief judge of the Hawkeye State's Second Judicial District, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of operating while under the influence — first offense, court records say. Local CBS affiliate KCCI reported Kester will be on probation for a year, must pay a $1,250 fine and complete a 48-hour OWI program.

Concerned motorists called 911 shortly after 8 p.m. on Nov. 4 after seeing Kester's 2026 GMC Canyon Denali slowly driving east in the westbound lanes of U.S. Highway 30 near Boone, which is some 45 miles northwest of Des Moines, a criminal complaint obtained by The Associated Press said.

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