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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1914 / Served to 1915

Warren Truitt

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

Warren Truitt was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1914. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1914–1915

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1914	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Truitt authored 12 published opinions for the court (1914). Most cited: State ex rel. Mills v. American Surety Co. (31 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. 12 of these were attributed to Truitt 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
1914	State ex rel. Mills v. American Surety Co.†	26 Idaho 652	31
1914	Boise Development Co. v. Boise City†	26 Idaho 347	26
1914	Boise Ass'n of Credit Men, Ltd. v. Ellis†	26 Idaho 438	13
1914	Bank of Orofino v. Wellman†	26 Idaho 425	11
1914	Cameron Lumber Co. v. Stack-Gibbs Lumber Co.†	26 Idaho 626	7
1914	State v. Janks†	26 Idaho 567	6
1914	Thiessen v. City of Lewiston†	26 Idaho 505	5
1914	Capital Lumber Co. v. Saunders†	26 Idaho 408	4
1914	Boise Butcher Co. v. Anixdale†	26 Idaho 483	3
1914	Stack-Gibbs Lumber Co. v. Cameron Lumber Co.†	26 Idaho 649	0
1914	Idaho Hardware & Plumbing Co. v. Saunders†	26 Idaho 424	0
1914	Smith v. Bergstresser†	26 Idaho 322	0

Showing the 12 most-cited of 12 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 Warren Truitt on?: Warren Truitt was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1914. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).