Casey Simmons at a glance
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Casey Simmons
District Judge · Idaho District Court, Judicial District 1
Biography
Professional career
- Appointed district judge, First Judicial District, September 30, 2024; sworn in November 2024
- Winston & Cashatt, 2019-2024; partner from 2022, not from 2019
- Simmons held the role of the designated prosecutor for the Kootenai County Mental Health Court and later transitioned into private practice with Winston & Cashatt, becoming a partner in 2022
- Deputy prosecutor, Kootenai County Prosecutor's Office, 2013-2019
- Began her legal career clerking for the Honorable John T. Mitchell for one year before joining the Kootenai County Prosecutor’s Office in 2013.
- Law clerk to Judge John T. Mitchell, First Judicial District, 2012-2013
- Casey Simmons received an appointment as a District Judge for the First Judicial District by Governor Brad Little following the retirement of Judge Richard Christensen
- As a District Judge, Simmons has presided over both criminal and civil cases
Education
- University of Idaho College of Law — J.D. (2012)
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, University of Idaho — 2009
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Idaho and a law degree from the University of Idaho College of Law.
Additional information
- Highly experienced legal professional with a background in prosecution, private practice, and judicial service.
- Simmons is active in the legal community, serving on multiple boards and committees.
- She is also a graduate of the Idaho Academy of Leadership for Lawyers program
- She has graded bar exams, served on the First District Bar Association and the John P. Gray Bench Bar Forum, and is a member and regional chair of Idaho Women Lawyers.
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 1
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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