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Brendon Taylor
District Judge · Idaho District Court, Judicial District 7
Biography
Professional career
- Taylor had held the role of a Bonneville County magistrate judge since 2022 and presided over its Domestic Violence Treatment Court
- District Judge, Seventh Judicial District — Appointed June 3, 2025, by Idaho Governor Brad Little to succeed Hon
- Brendon C. Taylor is a magistrate judge in Bonneville County, Idaho, appointed in 2022, and in June 2025 was elevated to District Judge for the Seventh Judicial District, serving in Bonneville County
- Magistrate judge, Bonneville County, from 2022; presiding judge, Domestic Violence Treatment Court
- Bonneville County Magistrate Judge — Appointed January 1, 2022, by the 7th Judicial District Magistrates Commission to fill a vacancy caused by the retirement of Hon. L. Mark Riddoch
- Appointed district judge by Gov
- Before joining the judiciary, Taylor was a partner at Merrill & Merrill in Pocatello for 22 years
Education
- Undergraduate degree at Idaho State University and his law degree at Washburn University School of Law.
- Washburn University School of Law — J.D.
Additional information
- Brad Little, June 3, 2025, succeeding Bruce L. Pickett
- Governor Brad Little appointed Brendon Taylor to the Seventh Judicial District on June 3, 2025, to fill the Bonneville County vacancy created by Bruce Pickett’s retirement.
- handling civil litigation, criminal defense, and family law.
- representing the Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company of Idaho and Allstate Insurance Company
- Presiding Judge — Oversees the Domestic Violence Treatment Court program in Bonneville County
- Earlier he practiced civil and criminal litigation for 22 years at Merrill & Merrill in Pocatello.
- He specialized in insurance defense claims
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 7
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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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