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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1950 / Served to 1954

Darwin W. Thomas

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Darwin W. Thomas was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1894–1954
Tenure: 1950–1954 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Thomas authored 72 published opinions for the court (1951–1980), plus 10 dissents. Most cited: State v. Evans (105 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. 15 of these were attributed to Thomas 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
1952	State v. Evans· Dissent†	245 P.2d 788	105
1952	Hayward v. Yost	242 P.2d 971	92
1952	Stearns v. Williams	240 P.2d 833	88
1954	Gapsch v. Gapsch	277 P.2d 278	72
1954	State v. Weise	273 P.2d 97	54
1979	Tibbs v. City of Sandpoint	603 P.2d 1001	47
1951	Hopson v. North American Ins. Co.	233 P.2d 799	45
1953	Sanchotena v. Tower Co.	264 P.2d 1021	44
1953	Ex Parte Medley	253 P.2d 794	44
1951	Eriksen v. Nez Perce County	235 P.2d 736	44
1953	State v. Arthur	261 P.2d 135	41
1954	Jaynes v. Potlatch Forests, Inc.	271 P.2d 1016	40
1952	Thurman v. Thurman	245 P.2d 810	39
1952	Chastain's, Inc. v. State Tax Commission	241 P.2d 167	39
1951	State v. Scott	239 P.2d 258	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 82 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 Darwin W. Thomas on?: Darwin W. Thomas was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).