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# Carol “Tippi” Jarman

Idaho Magistrate Division, Judicial District 6 · Magistrate Judge

## Profile

- Court: Idaho Magistrate Division, Judicial District 6
- 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

- Carol Tippi Jarman is the Magistrate Judge for Bannock County, Idaho, presiding over the Domestic Violence Court, family court, and criminal court matters, and has served on the bench since 2020
- Before joining the bench, Jarman was an attorney at Hawley Troxell Ennis & Hawley, LLP since 2018, after partnering at Bailey, Hahn & Jarman and Racine Olson, where she became the first female equity shareholder.
- Selected as Bannock County magistrate judge in October 2020, succeeding Steven Thomsen, with service to begin in November
- Before appointment she worked at Hawley Troxell Ennis & Hawley from 2018, was a partner at Bailey, Hahn & Jarman and Racine Olson, practiced with Lacy & Kane and Maguire & Kress, and held the role of Power County deputy prosecutor.
- She also practiced at Lacy & Kane and Maguire & Kress, and held the role of a deputy prosecutor in Power County

### Education

- a J.D. from the University of Idaho College of Law in 2001, and was admitted to the Idaho Bar in 2001 and the Washington Bar in 2005.
- She earned a B.A. from Montana State University

### Additional information

- She earned her bachelor’s degree at Montana State University and law degree at the University of Idaho and practiced law since 2001.
- Carol Tippi Jarman was appointed by the District Magistrate Commission of the 6th Judicial District in 2020 to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Hon.
- received the Idaho State Journal’s 2018 Best Family Law Attorney Readers Choice Award.
- The 6th Judicial District includes Bannock, Bear Lake, Caribou, Franklin, Oneida, and Power Counties.
- As a magistrate judge, Jarman presides over misdemeanor criminal cases, infractions, traffic violations, small claims, family law, divorce, custody, probate, guardianship, conservatorship, protection orders, and felony preliminary hearings
- She serves in Bannock County Magistrate Court and is the Magistrate Judge for the Bannock County Domestic Violence Court, which operates under a “one family, one judge” model to streamline domestic violence cases, provide victim services, and ensure offender accountability.
- She is a member of Psi Chi and Golden Key National Honors Societies and has held the role of a guest lecturer at Idaho State University

## 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)
- [current_membership](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)
- [localnews8.com](https://localnews8.com/news/pocatello/2020/10/19/new-bannock-county-judge-appointed/)

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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.
