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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1926 / Served to 1933

Bailey T. Lee

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Bailey T. Lee was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1926. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1926–1933 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1926	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lee authored 48 published opinions for the court (1931–1932). Most cited: Trimming v. Howard (44 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1932	Trimming v. Howard	16 P.2d 661	44
1931	Strouse v. Hercules Mining Co.	1 P.2d 203	24
1931	Largilliere v. Largilliere	298 P. 362	21
1931	Crystal Dome Oil & Gas Co. v. Savic	6 P.2d 155	18
1932	State Insurance Fund v. Hunt	17 P.2d 354	17
1932	Glennon v. Fisher	10 P.2d 294	16
1931	Gerken v. Davidson Grocery Co.	296 P. 192	16
1932	Rowe v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.	17 P.2d 352	15
1932	Tendoy v. West	9 P.2d 1026	14
1932	State v. Flitton	15 P.2d 397	13
1931	Butland v. City of Caldwell	6 P.2d 493	13
1932	State v. Miller	10 P.2d 955	11
1931	McConnel v. Gallet	6 P.2d 143	11
1932	Johnson v. Young	23 P.2d 723	10
1932	Baldwin v. Anderson	13 P.2d 650	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 48 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 Bailey T. Lee on?: Bailey T. Lee was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

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6 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).