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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Idaho Supreme Court / Joined 1921 / Served to 1930

William A. Lee

Justice, Idaho Supreme Court

William A. Lee was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1921–1930 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–
1923	Idaho Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lee authored 155 published opinions for the court (1921–1925), plus 18 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. McLennan (65 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. 184 of these were attributed to Lee 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
1925	State v. McLennan†	231 P. 718	65
1921	State v. Sullivan†	34 Idaho 68	65
1923	Taylor v. Blackwell Lumber Co.†	37 Idaho 707	46
1924	State v. Arnold· Dissent†	229 P. 748	38
1925	Milner v. Earl Fruit Co. of the Northwest· Dissent†	232 P. 581	35
1923	State v. Armstrong· Concurrence†	38 Idaho 493	34
1924	State v. Cosler†	228 P. 277	30
1923	Gridley v. Ross†	37 Idaho 693	30
1922	Pocatello Security Trust Co. v. Henry†	35 Idaho 321	29
1925	Ellis v. Ashton & St. Anthony Power Co.· Dissent†	238 P. 517	28
1924	Coulson v. Aberdeen-Springfield Canal Co.†	227 P. 29	28
1924	State v. Gillum†	228 P. 334	27
1921	Wright v. Atwood†	33 Idaho 455	27
1924	Hill v. Porter†	38 Idaho 574	26
1921	Wilson v. St. Joe Boom Co.†	34 Idaho 253	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 184 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 William A. Lee on?: William A. Lee was a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).