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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 2003 / Former Justice

Roger R. Burdick

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Roger R. Burdick was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Idaho

Judicial Record

In our data, Burdick authored 407 published opinions for the court (2003–2019), plus 14 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Huffman (1,151 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. 223 of these were attributed to Burdick 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
2007	State v. Huffman	159 P.3d 838	1,151
2010	State v. Perry	245 P.3d 961	531
2004	Dunlap v. State	106 P.3d 376	413
2006	State v. Doe· Dissent†	144 P.3d 597	358
2010	Kelly v. State	236 P.3d 1277	337
2009	Doe v. Doe	220 P.3d 1062	330
2007	State v. Field	165 P.3d 273	286
2006	State v. Doe	146 P.3d 649	286
2008	State v. Payne	199 P.3d 123	235
2008	State v. Yakovac	180 P.3d 476	193
2012	State v. Adamcik· Dissent†	272 P.3d 417	161
2009	State v. Clements	218 P.3d 1143	137
2008	State v. Stevens	191 P.3d 217	133
2007	Ticor Title Co. v. Stanion	157 P.3d 613	126
2004	State v. Rogers	91 P.3d 1127	122

Showing the 15 most-cited of 432 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 Roger R. Burdick on?: Roger R. Burdick was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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23 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).