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 2009 / Active

David W. Gratton

Judge, Idaho Court of Appeals

David W. Gratton is a Judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Idaho Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Boise State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gratton authored 124 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 3 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Andrew Dallas Morgan (486 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. 100 of these were attributed to Gratton 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
2012	State v. Andrew Dallas Morgan†	153 Idaho 618	486
2009	State v. Hanington	218 P.3d 5	364
2009	Barcella v. State	224 P.3d 536	190
2011	Gonzales v. State· Concurrence†	254 P.3d 69	180
2014	State v. Rhonda Trusdall†	155 Idaho 965	148
2016	State v. Kevin Donald Cheatham†	159 Idaho 856	46
2010	State v. POKORNEY	235 P.3d 409	39
2010	State v. Molen· Concurrence†	231 P.3d 1047	39
2009	Hughes v. State	224 P.3d 515	37
2011	Idaho Department of Health & Welfare v. Doe· Dissent†	250 P.3d 803	25
2009	Bennett v. State, Department of Transportation	206 P.3d 505	21
2011	State v. Reid	253 P.3d 754	20
2009	State v. Adams· Concurrence†	216 P.3d 146	20
2010	State v. Wheeler	233 P.3d 1286	19
2014	State v. Allen Keith Clontz†	156 Idaho 787	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 138 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 is David W. Gratton on?: David W. Gratton is a Judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals.

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17 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).