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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1945 / Served to 1948

Bert H. Miller

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Bert H. Miller was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1879–1949
Tenure: 1945–1948 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 36 published opinions for the court (1945–1948), plus 5 dissents. Most cited: Keenan v. Price (107 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
1948	Keenan v. Price· Dissent	195 P.2d 662	107
1946	Higer v. Hansen	170 P.2d 411	43
1948	Wanke v. Ziebarth Const. Co.	202 P.2d 384	34
1948	Maudlin v. Maudlin	188 P.2d 323	31
1945	Loosli v. Heseman	162 P.2d 393	31
1948	Reynolds Irr. Dist. v. Sproat	206 P.2d 774	29
1946	Fish v. Fish	170 P.2d 802	27
1947	Louie v. Bamboo Gardens	185 P.2d 712	26
1948	Cogswell v. C. C. Anderson Stores Co.· Dissent	192 P.2d 383	25
1948	State v. Salhus· Dissent	189 P.2d 372	24
1948	State v. Dickens	191 P.2d 364	20
1947	Thomey v. Thomey	181 P.2d 777	20
1948	State Ex Rel. Nielson v. Lindstrom· Dissent	191 P.2d 1009	15
1947	Hancock v. Elkington	186 P.2d 494	15
1946	State v. Romich	176 P.2d 204	15

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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 Bert H. Miller on?: Bert H. Miller was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).