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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1988 / Served to 1999

Byron J. Johnson

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Byron J. Johnson was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1937–2012
Tenure: 1988–1999 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 317 published opinions for the court (1924–1999), plus 55 dissents and 103 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Valdez-Molina (700 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. 220 of these were attributed to Johnson 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
1995	State v. Valdez-Molina	897 P.2d 993	700
1992	State v. Brown	825 P.2d 482	601
1991	Sun Valley Shopping Center, Inc. v. Idaho Power Co.	803 P.2d 993	492
1996	State v. Zichko· Dissent†	923 P.2d 966	472
1993	State v. Raudebaugh	864 P.2d 596	270
1990	Stuart v. State· Concurrence†	801 P.2d 1216	262
1991	State v. Broadhead	814 P.2d 401	247
1991	Sanchez v. Arave	815 P.2d 1061	184
1991	State v. Pizzuto· Concurrence†	810 P.2d 680	162
1992	State v. Guzman· Concurrence†	842 P.2d 660	152
1991	State v. Card· Concurrence†	825 P.2d 1081	148
1989	Miles v. Idaho Power Co. Ex Rel. Evans	778 P.2d 757	136
1989	State v. Lankford· Concurrence†	781 P.2d 197	131
1992	Idaho First National Bank v. Bliss Valley Foods, Inc.· Concurrence†	824 P.2d 841	127
1992	State v. Zimmerman	829 P.2d 861	123

Showing the 15 most-cited of 476 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 Byron J. Johnson on?: Byron J. Johnson was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).