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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1929 / Served to 1933

Bertram S. Varian

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Bertram S. Varian was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1929. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1929–1933 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1929	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Varian authored 134 published opinions for the court (1924–1932), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Continental Oil Co. v. City of Twin Falls (61 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. 1 of these was attributed to Varian 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
1930	Continental Oil Co. v. City of Twin Falls	286 P. 353	61
1931	State v. McClurg	300 P. 898	52
1931	State v. Smailes	5 P.2d 540	39
1930	State v. Bush	295 P. 432	35
1932	Baldwin v. Anderson	8 P.2d 461	30
1930	Boomer v. Isley	290 P. 405	29
1932	State v. McDermott	17 P.2d 343	28
1930	State v. Holder	290 P. 387	27
1929	State v. Stevens	282 P. 93	27
1928	Gunnell v. Largilliere Co.	269 P. 412	27
1931	Davis v. Potter	2 P.2d 318	25
1930	State v. Gee	284 P. 845	25
1929	Gallafent v. Tucker	281 P. 375	23
1930	Parks v. Mulledy	290 P. 205	22
1931	Silkey v. Tiegs	5 P.2d 1049	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 136 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 Bertram S. Varian on?: Bertram S. Varian 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).