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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1925 / Served to 1954

Raymond Givens

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Raymond Givens was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1884–1977
Tenure: 1925–1954 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Givens authored 705 published opinions for the court (1924–1954), plus 63 dissents and 43 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Owen (116 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. 52 of these were attributed to Givens 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
1953	State v. Owen· Dissent†	253 P.2d 203	116
1939	State v. Taylor	87 P.2d 454	72
1926	Strickfaden v. Greencreek Highway District	248 P. 456	69
1937	State v. McMahan· Separate	65 P.2d 156	61
1927	Walker v. Hyde· Dissent	253 P. 1104	61
1936	Johnson v. Diefendorf· Dissent	57 P.2d 1068	55
1932	State v. Farnsworth	10 P.2d 295	54
1937	Geist v. Moore	70 P.2d 403	50
1937	State v. Van Vlack	65 P.2d 736	50
1944	Idaho Mutual Benefit Ass'n v. Robison	154 P.2d 156	49
1938	Idaho Gold Dredging Co. v. Balderston	78 P.2d 105	47
1949	Robinson v. Robinson· Concurrence	212 P.2d 1031	46
1952	Ineas v. Union Pac. R. Co.	241 P.2d 1178	43
1940	Lebak v. Nelson· Separate	107 P.2d 1054	42
1945	State v. Mundell· Dissent	158 P.2d 818	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 829 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 Raymond Givens on?: Raymond Givens was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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29 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).