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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 2004 / Former Justice

Jim Jones

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Jim Jones was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Northwestern University

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 40 published opinions for the court (2005–2006), plus 5 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Doe (358 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. 35 of these were attributed to Jones 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. Doe· Concurrence†	144 P.3d 597	358
2006	Roe v. Doe†	143 Idaho 188	329
2005	Eighteen Mile Ranch, LLC v. Nord Excavating & Paving, Inc.	117 P.3d 130	76
2006	Obenchain v. McAlvain Construction, Inc.†	137 P.3d 443	47
2006	Greenough v. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. of Idaho†	130 P.3d 1127	46
2006	J.R. Simplot Co. v. Bosen· Dissent†	167 P.3d 748	37
2005	Taylor v. Maile	127 P.3d 156	32
2006	Paolini v. Albertson's Inc.· Dissent†	149 P.3d 822	30
2005	Lettunich v. Lettunich	111 P.3d 110	29
2005	Kolar v. Cassia County Idaho	127 P.3d 962	28
2006	Schwan's Sales Enterprises, Inc. v. Idaho Transportation Department†	136 P.3d 297	26
2006	Troutner v. Kempthorne· Concurrence†	128 P.3d 926	25
2005	A & J CONST. CO., INC. v. Wood	116 P.3d 12	24
2005	State v. Korsen	111 P.3d 130	23
2006	Atwood v. Smith†	138 P.3d 310	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 56 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 Jim Jones on?: Jim Jones was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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22 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).