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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Court of Appeals / Joined 1993 / Served to 2015

Karen Lansing

Judge, Idaho Court of Appeals

Karen Lansing was a Judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1993–2015 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Idaho Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Idaho

Judicial Record

In our data, Lansing authored 631 published opinions for the court (1993–2015), plus 16 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Atkinson (759 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. 188 of these were attributed to Lansing 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
1996	State v. Atkinson	916 P.2d 1284	759
1999	State v. Schevers	979 P.2d 659	680
1995	State v. Upton	899 P.2d 984	543
1994	Roman v. State	873 P.2d 898	471
2008	Hayes v. State	195 P.3d 712	346
2008	Sheahan v. State	190 P.3d 920	329
2000	State v. Escobar	3 P.3d 65	212
2007	State v. Phillips	156 P.3d 583	129
2003	State v. Sheldon	88 P.3d 1220	123
1997	Martinez v. State	944 P.2d 127	111
2006	Plant v. State	152 P.3d 629	98
2002	State v. Gutierrez	51 P.3d 461	92
2004	State v. Roe· Concurrence†	90 P.3d 926	88
1999	State v. Schaffer	982 P.2d 961	88
2004	Newman v. State	95 P.3d 642	83

Showing the 15 most-cited of 675 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Karen Lansing on?: Karen Lansing was a Judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals.

Sources

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22 years on the Idaho Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).