--- title: "Brendon Taylor | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/brendon-taylor-id-trial" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-07" --- # Brendon Taylor Idaho District Court, Judicial District 7 · District Judge ## Profile - Court: Idaho District Court, Judicial District 7 - State: Idaho - Role: District Judge - Service status: active - Last verified: 2026-07-27 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## 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 ## 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://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/gov-little-appoints-brendon-taylor-to-seventh-judicial-district/) - [current_membership](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/brendon-taylor-id-trial", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/brendon-taylor-id-trial", "name": "Brendon Taylor | KnowJudges", "description": "Brendon Taylor, Idaho District Court, Judicial District 7. 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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.