--- title: "Gene A. Petty | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/gene-a-petty-id-appellate" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-07" --- # Gene A. Petty Idaho Court of Appeals · Judge ## Profile - Court: Idaho Court of Appeals - State: Idaho - Role: Judge - Service status: active - Last verified: 2026-07-27 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## Biography ### Professional career - Appointed judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals, serving since May 2026 after a long career as a district judge and civil litigator in Idaho’s Third Judicial District - Judge, Idaho Court of Appeals, appointed May 2026; public oath Aug - District judge, Third Judicial District, appointed 2017; re-elected 2018 and 2022; presiding judge, Canyon County Mental Health Court - District Judge: In April 2017, Governor C.L - Legal Career: Moved to Idaho in 2003, he began as a deputy prosecutor in the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office - Civil litigation, Ada County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, more than 13 years - As district judge, he presided over civil and felony criminal cases and led the Canyon County Mental Health Court IDSC | Supreme Court - Adjunct professor, Concordia University School of Law ### Education ### Additional information - 28, 2026; succeeds Molly Huskey - Joined the Idaho Court of Appeals by Governor Brad Little on May 28, 2026, and sworn in on July 1, 2026. - He was re-elected in 2018, 2022, and 2026. - Behavioral Health Leadership: In 2020, he co-founded the Idaho Behavioral Health Council and has continued to guide behavioral health initiatives, also participating in the Judges and Psychiatrists Leadership Initiative - In 2018, Judge Petty received the Idaho State Bar’s Service Award for leadership in the Idaho Academy of Leadership for Lawyers and the Professionalism and Ethics Section - “Butch” Otter appointed him to the Third Judicial District Court (Adams, Canyon, Gem, Owyhee, Payette, and Washington counties). - handling a wide range of civil litigation — including medical malpractice, civil rights, tort, tax, and employment discrimination cases — in state trial courts, the U.S. District Court, and the Idaho Supreme Court - Born in Oklahoma, Petty attended high school in Mountain Home, Arkansas, then earned a B.A. in Psychology from California State University, San Marcos, and a J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law (Early Education). ## 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 ### 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/ica-judges) - [Official roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/ica-judges) - [Idaho Supreme Court official judicial roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/ica-judges) - [Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs) - [Idaho Supreme Court official judicial roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory) - [biography](https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/gov-little-announces-new-appointments-3/) - [current_membership](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/ica-judges) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/gene-a-petty-id-appellate", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/gene-a-petty-id-appellate", "name": "Gene A. 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