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# Abraham Wingrove

Idaho Magistrate Division, Judicial District 4 · Magistrate Judge

## Profile

- Court: Idaho Magistrate Division, Judicial District 4
- State: Idaho
- Role: Magistrate Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-27

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## 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.

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### electronic exhibit format

Scope: 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.

Evidence excerpt: 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](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs)
Source checked: 2026-07-27


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)
- [Official roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)
- [Idaho Supreme Court official judicial roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)
- [Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs)
- [biography](https://blogs.und.edu/ndlaw/2022/08/abraham-wingrove-11-appointed-magistrate-judge-in-ada-county-idaho/)
- [current_membership](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)

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## Published courtroom rules

### Shared court rules

- [Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-0c38e11cda2478da65cd7ff5) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim.  Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs). Collected 2026-07-27.