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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1995 / Served to 2007

Gerald F. Schroeder

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Gerald F. Schroeder was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1995–2007 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Schroeder authored 326 published opinions for the court (1979–2007), plus 42 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Knighton (1,122 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. 118 of these were attributed to Schroeder 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
2006	State v. Knighton	144 P.3d 23	1,122
1996	State v. Zichko	923 P.2d 966	472
2002	Doe v. State	53 P.3d 341	303
2003	State v. Sheahan	77 P.3d 956	264
1999	State v. Rhode	988 P.2d 685	137
1998	Berg v. State	960 P.2d 738	136
2004	State v. Doe	92 P.3d 521	133
2004	Myers v. Workmen's Auto Insurance	95 P.3d 977	114
2004	Shawver v. Huckleberry Estates, L.L.C.	93 P.3d 685	98
1998	State v. Merwin· Concurrence†	962 P.2d 1026	98
2007	State v. Yzaguirre	163 P.3d 1183	76
2001	Great Plains Equipment, Inc. v. Northwest Pipeline Corp.	36 P.3d 218	74
2007	State v. Henage· Concurrence†	152 P.3d 16	71
1996	Yoakum v. Hartford Fire Insurance· Dissent†	923 P.2d 416	68
2001	Bradbury v. Idaho Judicial Council	28 P.3d 1006	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 400 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 Gerald F. Schroeder on?: Gerald F. Schroeder was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).