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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1933 / Served to 1950

Edwin Holden

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Edwin Holden was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1869 · age 157
Tenure: 1933–1950 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Holden authored 242 published opinions for the court (1932–1950), plus 43 dissents and 25 concurrences. Most cited: Pierstorff v. Gray's Auto Shop (122 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. 10 of these were attributed to Holden 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
1937	Pierstorff v. Gray's Auto Shop	74 P.2d 171	122
1935	State Ex Rel. Miller v. State Board of Education· Concurrence	52 P.2d 141	71
1935	Henderson v. Twin Falls County	50 P.2d 597	65
1947	Smith v. Smith· Dissent	180 P.2d 853	50
1933	State v. Orr· Dissent	24 P.2d 679	47
1948	Gifford v. Nottingham· Dissent	193 P.2d 831	46
1941	Klam v. Koppel	118 P.2d 729	46
1941	Roosma v. Moots	112 P.2d 1000	45
1941	Stearns Ex Rel. Stearns v. Graves	111 P.2d 882	42
1940	Lebak v. Nelson	107 P.2d 1054	42
1938	State Ex Rel. Graham v. Enking	82 P.2d 649	42
1945	State v. Mundell	158 P.2d 818	40
1940	Wright v. Callahan	99 P.2d 961	39
1934	Helgeson Ex Rel. Helgeson v. Powell· Dissent	34 P.2d 957	38
1947	Webster v. Potlatch Forests, Inc.	187 P.2d 527	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 316 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 Edwin Holden on?: Edwin Holden was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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17 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).