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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1992 / Served to 2007

Linda Copple Trout

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Linda Copple Trout was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: 1992–2007 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Idaho

Judicial Record

In our data, Trout authored 414 published opinions for the court (1993–2007), plus 20 dissents and 19 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. 81 of these were attributed to Trout 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	144 P.3d 597	358
2004	Charboneau v. State	102 P.3d 1108	356
1999	State v. Burnight	978 P.2d 214	291
2007	Charboneau v. State	174 P.3d 870	188
1998	State v. Moore	965 P.2d 174	156
1997	State v. Porter	948 P.2d 127	114
2006	Estrada v. State	149 P.3d 833	109
2000	Urrutia v. Blaine County	2 P.3d 738	100
2004	State v. Page	103 P.3d 454	99
1998	State v. Merwin	962 P.2d 1026	98
1999	State v. Blake	985 P.2d 117	89
2007	Nelson v. Nelson	170 P.3d 375	88
1993	Curtis v. Firth	850 P.2d 749	88
1999	Payette River Property Owners Ass'n v. Board of Commissioners	976 P.2d 477	85
1998	Price v. PAYETTE CTY. BD. OF CTY. COM'RS	958 P.2d 583	85

Showing the 15 most-cited of 453 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 Linda Copple Trout on?: Linda Copple Trout was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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14 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).