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# Cynthia K.C. Meyer

Supreme Court of Idaho · Justice

## Profile

- Court: Supreme Court of Idaho
- State: Idaho
- Role: Justice
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-08-22

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Biography

### Professional career

- The 60th Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, appointed by Governor Brad Little in November 2023 to replace Justice John Stegner, and sworn in on January 5, 2024
- Associate justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, a position she assumed after being appointed on November 6, 2023.
- District judge, First Judicial District, appointed May 2015 by Gov
- Justice, Idaho Supreme Court, appointed Nov

### Education

- University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law — J.D. (1987)
- Political Science, College of Idaho — B.A. (1982)

### Additional information

- 6, 2023 by Gov.
- Butch Otter in 2015 as a judge of the Idaho 1st Judicial District Court held the role of administrative district judge for the First Judicial District and president of the statewide District Judges’ Association Mentored new district judges and oversaw the Kootenai County Drug Court
- Moved to Coeur d'Alene in 2003; tourism business; taught business law and paralegal classes at North Idaho College; returned to civil litigation
- Civil litigation, Salt Lake City
- Legal Practice: Over 30 years in civil litigation, including roles at Sessions & Moore, Campbell Maack & Sessions, and Morgan, Meyer & Rice
- C.L. Otter; mentor judge
- Kootenai County Drug Court; administrative district judge and president of the District Judges Association at the time of elevation
- Appointed by Gov (Judicial Service).
- Pocatello High School
- Meyer was born in Mountain Home, Idaho, and has deep ties to Coeur d’Alene, where much of her career was based.

## 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/sc-justices)
- [Official roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/sc-justices)
- [Idaho Judicial Branch official judicial roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/sc-justices)
- [Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs)
- [biography](https://isc.idaho.gov/Cynthia-Meyer)
- [current_membership](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/sc-justices)

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