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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Court of Appeals / Joined 1993 / Served to 2009

Darrel Perry

Judge, Idaho Court of Appeals

Darrel Perry was a Judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1993–2009 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Idaho Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Perry authored 504 published opinions for the court (1993–2012), plus 8 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Burdett (398 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. 111 of these were attributed to Perry 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
2000	State v. Burdett	1 P.3d 299	398
2002	Goodwin v. State	61 P.3d 626	366
1997	Powell v. Sellers	937 P.2d 434	270
1998	State v. Herrera-Brito	957 P.2d 1099	250
2007	Knutsen v. State	163 P.3d 222	245
1999	State v. Ferreira	988 P.2d 700	240
2007	Self v. State	181 P.3d 504	217
2003	State v. Reyes	80 P.3d 1103	217
1993	State v. Bowman	866 P.2d 193	215
1998	State v. Flowers	953 P.2d 645	205
1993	State v. Atkinson	864 P.2d 654	175
1997	State v. Kilby	947 P.2d 420	158
2001	State v. Beard	22 P.3d 116	151
1994	Howard v. State	880 P.2d 261	132
1994	Sanders v. Kuna Joint School District	876 P.2d 154	119

Showing the 15 most-cited of 517 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Darrel Perry on?: Darrel Perry was a Judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals.

Sources

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16 years on the Idaho Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).