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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1989 / Served to 1997

Charles F. McDevitt

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Charles F. McDevitt was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1989–1997 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McDevitt authored 256 published opinions for the court (1989–1998), plus 11 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Fodge (375 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. 58 of these were attributed to McDevitt 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
1992	State v. Fodge	824 P.2d 123	375
1995	State v. Weaver	900 P.2d 196	169
1991	State v. Card· Concurrence†	825 P.2d 1081	148
1994	Farm Credit Bank of Spokane v. Stevenson	869 P.2d 1365	132
1992	State v. Zimmerman· Concurrence†	829 P.2d 861	123
1994	Friel v. Boise City Housing Authority	887 P.2d 29	114
1992	State v. Gleason	844 P.2d 691	112
1990	Stuart v. State	801 P.2d 1283	111
1990	State v. O'NEILL	796 P.2d 121	105
1993	Idaho Schools for Equal Educational Opportunity v. Evans· Concurrence†	850 P.2d 724	98
1992	Harris v. State, Dept. of Health	847 P.2d 1156	95
1991	McCoy v. Lyons· Dissent†	820 P.2d 360	89
1990	Brower v. EI DuPont De Nemours and Co.	792 P.2d 345	86
1993	State v. Charboneau	861 P.2d 67	82
1991	State v. Rhoades	820 P.2d 665	80

Showing the 15 most-cited of 277 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 Charles F. McDevitt on?: Charles F. McDevitt was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 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).