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Blaine Cannon
District Judge · Idaho District Court, Judicial District 5
Biography
Professional career
- District judge, Fifth Judicial District, Cassia County, appointed July 17, 2024, succeeding Michael Tribe
- Promotion: In July 2024, Governor Brad Little appointed Cannon as District Judge for the Fifth Judicial District, filling a vacancy after Justice Michael Tribe’s appointment to the Idaho Court of Appeals
- Magistrate judge, Cassia County, appointed 2012
- Deputy public defender, Minidoka and Cassia counties; helped establish the Mini-Cassia juvenile drug court
- Chief deputy prosecuting attorney, Cassia County, more than 10 years
- Blaine P. Cannon is the District Judge for Cassia County, Idaho, and a magistrate for the Cassia County Magistrate Court, with over 26 years of legal service in the region
Education
- B.A. and J.D., Brigham Young University
Additional information
- Mini-Cassia felony drug court
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 District Court, Judicial District 5
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 ↗ · 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
Statewide source · HTML · Source checked July 27, 2026
View Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6 ↗current_membership
Current Membership source · HTML · Source checked October 4, 2026
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