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Abraham Wingrove
Magistrate Judge · Idaho Magistrate Division, Judicial District 4
Biography
Professional career
- Experienced public defender turned magistrate judge, now serving in Idaho’s 4th Judicial District, with a focus on traffic and misdemeanor criminal cases, and a term running through 2029
- Abraham E. Wingrove is a Magistrate Judge in Ada County, Idaho, appointed in 2022 to handle traffic and misdemeanor criminal cases, and re‐elected in 2024 for a term ending January 8, 2029
- Appointed: August 15, 2022, by the District Magistrate Commission of the 4th Judicial District, filling the vacancy left by Judge Michael Oths
- Ada County public defender for nine years before the 2022 appointment
Education
- in philosophy, Boise State University — B.A.
- University of North Dakota School of Law — J.D.
Additional information
- Appointed magistrate, Ada County, August 5, 2022, succeeding Michael Oths; sworn in August 15, 2022
- He was admitted to the Idaho State Bar in 2011
- Before his judicial appointment, Wingrove spent nine years as an Ada County Public Defender
- representing indigent defendants in magistrate and district court matters.
- Assigned to Ada County Magistrate Court and presides over a traffic and misdemeanor criminal court calendar.
- Idaho 4th Judicial District Magistrate Division, which covers Ada, Boise, Elmore, and Valley counties.
Applicable Court Rules & Procedures
Exhibits
Statewide
Idaho's statewide electronic-filing rule generally requires text-searchable PDF or PDF/A submissions and a 50 MB per-document limit; scanned-image attachments and exhibits may use standard PDF and are not rejected for the usual text-searchability format requirement.
A document ... submitted electronically to the court must be in the form of a text-searchable Portable Document Format (PDF) or a text-searchable Portable Document Format/A (PDF/A) file ... and not exceed 50 megabytes. A document that is an attachment or exhibit ... may be in standard PDF format and need not be text searchable.Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6 ↗
Published courtroom rules
Shared court rules
Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6
Idaho Magistrate Division, Judicial District 4
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Official source ↗ · Collected 2026-07-27Sources
Identity source checked July 27, 2026.
Biography sources checked July 27, 2026.
Idaho Supreme Court official judicial roster
Identity source · HTML · Source checked July 27, 2026
View Idaho Supreme Court official judicial roster ↗Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6
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