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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1955 / Served to 1956

Donald B. Anderson

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Donald B. Anderson was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1904–1956
Tenure: 1955–1956

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Anderson authored 41 published opinions for the court (1955–1956), plus 5 dissents. Most cited: Hixon v. Allphin (40 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. 7 of these were attributed to Anderson 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
1955	Hixon v. Allphin	281 P.2d 1042	40
1955	Application of Altmiller	285 P.2d 1064	34
1955	State v. Iverson	289 P.2d 603	29
1955	Freedman v. Hendershott	290 P.2d 738	27
1955	Cooper v. Wesco Builders, Inc.	281 P.2d 669	27
1955	Graham v. Milsap	290 P.2d 744	26
1955	Potvin v. Village of Chubbuck	284 P.2d 414	25
1956	Devlin Ex Rel. Devlin v. Ennis	292 P.2d 469	20
1956	Paurley v. Harris	292 P.2d 765	18
1955	State v. Webb	279 P.2d 634	18
1956	Woodland v. Lyon	298 P.2d 380	17
1956	State v. McCallum	295 P.2d 259	17
1956	Gaskill v. Neal	293 P.2d 957	17
1955	Larsen v. Jerome Cooperative Creamery· Dissent†	283 P.2d 1096	17
1956	Taggart v. Latah County	298 P.2d 979	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 46 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 Donald B. Anderson on?: Donald B. Anderson was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1955. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).