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Jennifer Bergin
Magistrate Judge · Idaho Magistrate Division, Judicial District 5
Biography
Professional career
- Magistrate Judge for Twin Falls County, part of Idaho’s Fifth Judicial District, serving since June 2024 after replacing the late Hon.
- Practiced law from 1999 and was a partner at Kippes and Bergin
- As a magistrate judge, she applies the law to cases, issues rulings, and manages proceedings in accordance with Idaho’s judicial procedures
- She co‐founded Kippes Law & Mediation PLLC with attorney Melissa Kippes, a full‐service law firm with over 30 years of experience in Southern Idaho courtrooms
Education
- BS in biology at Idaho State University in 1995 and JD at Gonzaga in 1998.
Additional information
- Appointed in June 2024 and formally invested in July 2024 during a public ceremony in Twin Falls.
- Jennifer R. Bergin was selected in June 2024 as Twin Falls County magistrate, replacing Calvin H. Campbell.
- Bergin later retired from the firm to take her current judicial position
- Bergin did not set out to become a judge but began the journey over the past year, committing to fairness, consistency, and public service on the bench
- Jennifer Bergin presides over cases in the Twin Falls County Magistrate Division, which handles a range of matters under the Idaho District Court system.
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 Magistrate Division, Judicial District 5
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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