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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1982 / Served to 1989

Robert C. Huntley Jr.

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Robert C. Huntley Jr. was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1982. He previously served on the Idaho Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1982–1989 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Idaho Court of Appeals	–	–
1982	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Huntley authored 220 published opinions for the court (1982–1989), plus 71 dissents and 54 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Creech (170 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. 165 of these were attributed to Huntley 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
1983	State v. Creech· Dissent†	670 P.2d 463	170
1985	State v. Caudill	706 P.2d 456	156
1983	State v. Lang	672 P.2d 561	133
1989	State v. Lankford	781 P.2d 197	131
1985	State v. Windsor· Concurrence†	716 P.2d 1182	131
1986	Sivak v. State· Concurrence†	731 P.2d 192	125
1983	State v. Sivak· Dissent†	674 P.2d 396	124
1986	Sterling v. Bloom· Concurrence†	723 P.2d 755	123
1989	State v. Charboneau· Concurrence†	774 P.2d 299	121
1984	State v. Aragon· Concurrence†	690 P.2d 293	117
1986	State v. Scroggins	716 P.2d 1152	113
1989	Metcalf v. Intermountain Gas Co.· Concurrence†	778 P.2d 744	101
1987	State v. Johns· Dissent†	736 P.2d 1327	100
1989	State v. Fain	774 P.2d 252	98
1987	Sanchez v. Galey	733 P.2d 1234	96

Showing the 15 most-cited of 350 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 Robert C. Huntley Jr. on?: Robert C. Huntley Jr. was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).