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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 2017 / Active

G. Richard Bevan

Chief Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

G. Richard Bevan is a Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, serving since 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2017 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bevan authored 39 published opinions for the court (2018–2019). Most cited: Lunneborg v. My Fun Life, Corp. (566 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. 39 of these were attributed to Bevan 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
2018	Lunneborg v. My Fun Life, Corp.†	421 P.3d 187	566
2018	State v. Herrera†	429 P.3d 149	397
2018	Idaho Dep't of Health & Welfare v. Doe (In Re Interest of Doe)†	426 P.3d 1243	81
2018	City of Idaho Falls, an Idaho Mun. Corp. v. H-K Contractors, Inc.†	416 P.3d 951	49
2018	State v. David Leon Johnson†	414 P.3d 234	36
2019	State v. Smalley†	435 P.3d 1100	34
2019	Thumm v. State†	447 P.3d 853	31
2019	Turcott v. Estate of Bates†	443 P.3d 197	28
2018	Valiant Idaho v. VP Incorporated†	429 P.3d 855	28
2019	Thurston Enters., Inc. v. Safeguard Bus. Sys., Inc.†	435 P.3d 489	21
2018	State v. Bernal†	427 P.3d 1	21
2018	Budget Truck Sales, LLC v. Tilley†	419 P.3d 1139	21
2019	Idaho Dep't of Health & Welfare v. Jane Doe (In re Doe I)†	437 P.3d 33	19
2019	Silverwing At Sandpoint, LLC v. Bonner Cnty.†	435 P.3d 1106	18
2018	Valiant Idaho, LLC v. JV L.L.C.†	429 P.3d 168	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 39 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 is G. Richard Bevan on?: G. Richard Bevan is a Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 years on the Idaho Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).