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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1933 / Served to 1935

N.D. Wernette

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

N.D. Wernette was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1933–1935 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wernette authored 38 published opinions for the court (1933–1934), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Kelley v. Prouty (51 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. 1 of these was attributed to Wernette 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
1934	Kelley v. Prouty	30 P.2d 769	51
1933	State v. Orr	24 P.2d 679	47
1934	Helgeson Ex Rel. Helgeson v. Powell	34 P.2d 957	38
1933	State v. Brown	26 P.2d 131	35
1934	In Re Contempt Proceedings of Brainard	39 P.2d 769	32
1934	J. C. Penney Co. v. Diefendorf	32 P.2d 784	31
1934	Feuling v. Farmers' Co-Operative Ditch Co.	31 P.2d 683	30
1933	Stephens v. Stephens	24 P.2d 52	29
1933	Oregon Short Line R. R. Co. v. Pfost	27 P.2d 877	26
1934	Savage v. Stokes	28 P.2d 900	25
1933	French v. Tebben	27 P.2d 475	24
1933	Lebrecht v. Union Indemnity Co.	22 P.2d 1066	21
1934	In Re MacKenzie	33 P.2d 113	20
1933	American Surety Co. of New York v. Blake	27 P.2d 972	20
1933	Peterson v. Universal Automobile Insurance	20 P.2d 1016	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 41 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 N.D. Wernette on?: N.D. Wernette was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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1 year 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).