Idaho Supreme Court

{{main|List of justices of the Idaho Supreme Court}}

Justices are elected in non-partisan statewide elections and serve staggered six-year terms. Elections are held in the state primary, now in the spring, with run-off elections in November. The Chief Justice is selected by an election among the five justices and term length for that office is four years.{{cite news |url=http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2015/jul/15/justice-jim-jones-be-idaho-supreme-courts-next-chief-justice-aug-1/ |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=Spokane, Washington |title=Justice Jim Jones to be Idaho Supreme Court's next chief justice, as of Aug. 1 |last=Russell |first=Betsy Z. |date=July 15, 2015 |access-date=August 17, 2015}} Prior to 1983, the position went to the justice with the least amount of time remaining in his term.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UnpfAAAAIBAJ&pg=5329,1032996 |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |title=Donaldson is first elective chief justice |date=January 4, 1983 |page=4D}}

The court originally had three justices; it was expanded to five in 1921.

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The first female justice on the Idaho Supreme Court was Linda Copple Trout, appointed in 1992 by Governor Cecil Andrus and elected in 1996 and 2002. She remains as the state's only female chief justice (1997–2004). The second female justice was Cathy Silak, appointed by Andrus in 1993 and elected in 1994. She lost her reelection bid in 2000 to Dan Eismann and became the first incumbent justice from the court to be defeated since 1944.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZvUjAAAAIBAJ&pg=6872%2C3622626 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=Spokane, Washington |title=Otter emerges from GOP crowd in Idaho primary |date=May 24, 2000 |page=B5 }}{{cite news |url=http://www.sos.idaho.gov/ELECT/2000rslt/primary/stwd_jud.htm |publisher=State of Idaho |agency=Secretary of State, Election Division |title=Statewide judicial vote by county |date=May 23, 2000 |access-date=August 17, 2015}}

After Trout's retirement in 2007, no women were on the court until the election of Robyn Brody in 2016 to a vacant seat, the first by a female; she is the only justice on the current court not first appointed. Colleen Zahn joined the court in 2021, appointed by Governor Brad Little; Brody and Zahn ran unopposed in 2022. With Little's appointment of Cynthia Meyer in 2023, the court currently has a female majority.

• Election by peers began in 1983.

The Idaho Supreme Court first permitted live video and audio coverage from its chambers in late 1978.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-cteAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nzIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4236%2C11631104 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |agency=Associated Press |title=Idaho Supreme Court will open its doors to cameras |date=November 30, 1978 |page=14A}}

• Courts of Idaho

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• [http://www.isc.idaho.gov/ Idaho State Judiciary]
• [https://www.idahoarchitectureproject.org/properties/idaho-supreme-court/ Idaho Architecture Project.org] - Idaho Supreme Court building
• [https://courthouses.co/us-states/h-l/idaho/idaho-supreme-court/ American Courthouses] – Idaho Supreme Court building

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