How do judges of the Idaho Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1968 / Served to 1989

Allan G. Shepard

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Allan G. Shepard was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–1987
Tenure: 1968–1989 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Shepard authored 484 published opinions for the court (1969–1990), plus 155 dissents and 89 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Haggard (202 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 327 of these were attributed to Shepard by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1971	State v. Haggard· Concurrence†	486 P.2d 260	202
1986	Doe v. Durtschi· Dissent†	716 P.2d 1238	198
1976	Jones v. State Board of Medicine	555 P.2d 399	191
1979	Dinneen v. Finch· Dissent†	603 P.2d 575	173
1983	State v. Creech	670 P.2d 463	170
1982	Riverside Development Co. v. Ritchie· Dissent†	650 P.2d 657	164
1983	Cheney v. Palos Verdes Investment Corp.	665 P.2d 661	162
1986	State v. Johnson· Dissent†	716 P.2d 1288	142
1974	Thompson v. Hagan· Dissent†	523 P.2d 1365	140
1980	Alegria v. Payonk· Dissent†	619 P.2d 135	135
1986	Sivak v. State· Concurrence†	731 P.2d 192	125
1989	State v. Charboneau· Concurrence†	774 P.2d 299	121
1986	State v. Scroggins· Concurrence†	716 P.2d 1152	113
1980	State v. Griffiths	610 P.2d 522	108
1980	State v. Sharp	616 P.2d 1034	102

Showing the 15 most-cited of 731 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Idaho Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Allan G. Shepard on?: Allan G. Shepard was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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21 years on the Idaho Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).