--- title: "John Cafferty | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/john-cafferty-id-trial" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-07" --- # John Cafferty Idaho District Court, Judicial District 1 · District Judge ## Profile - Court: Idaho District Court, Judicial District 1 - State: Idaho - Role: District Judge - Service status: active - Last verified: 2026-07-27 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## Biography ### Professional career - The First Judicial District encompasses Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, and Shoshone Counties Prior to this appointment, Cafferty held the role of a magistrate judge in Kootenai County from 2020 - Eleven years as a civil prosecutor, Kootenai County - Judge John Cafferty brings extensive experience in both prosecution and private practice to his role on the district court - District judge, First Judicial District, Kootenai County, appointed Feb ### Education - Undergraduate studies, Boise State University - University of Idaho — J.D. ### Additional information - 19, 2025, succeeding John T. Mitchell - handling a variety of civil, family, and trust-related cases. - In Idaho, judicial vacancies are filled when the Idaho Judicial Council submits a list of at least three qualified candidates to the governor, who then appoints a judge. - He also held the position of city attorney for Post Falls and served as a deputy city attorney prior to his judicial appointments - Before joining the bench, Cafferty accumulated nearly a decade of private practice experience at Hawley Troxell in Coeur d’Alene and served 11 years as a civil prosecutor in Kootenai County. - His career reflects a combination of civil, municipal, and judicial expertise, and he continues to serve the northern Idaho community with a focus on impartial and efficient judicial service - His judicial experience also includes presiding over cases such as divorce filings, creditor-debtor disputes, and trust registrations ## 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) - [biography](https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/boise-id-governor-brad-little-announced-today-his-appointment-of-john-cafferty-as-district-judge-to-the-first-judicial-district-cafferty-is-magistrate-judge-in-kootenai-county-serving-sin/) - [current_membership](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/john-cafferty-id-trial", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/john-cafferty-id-trial", "name": "John Cafferty | KnowJudges", "description": "John Cafferty, Idaho District Court, Judicial District 1. 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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.