Kent Gauchay at a glance
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Kent Gauchay
Magistrate Judge · Idaho Magistrate Division, Judicial District 7
Biography
Professional career
- Kent W. Gauchay is a magistrate judge for the Clark County Magistrate Court in Idaho, appointed in 2017 by the 7th Judicial District Magistrates Commission
- Before joining the bench, Gauchay was Prosecuting Attorney for Clark County from 2009, and earlier worked in private legal practice.
- Magistrate judge in the Clark County Magistrate Court, part of Idaho’s 7th Judicial District
- Kent W. Gauchay was named Clark County magistrate judge
Education
Additional information
- Appointed on May 12, 2017 to fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Penny Stanford.
- He also held the role of an attorney for Beard St. Clair Gaffney from 2014 to 2017.
- His legal work has covered business transactions, real estate, debt collection, family law, and complex civil litigation
- His former firm reports more than 30 years of Idaho practice, among them business transactions, real estate, debt collection, family law, and complex litigation.
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 7
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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
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Statewide source · HTML · Source checked July 27, 2026
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Current Membership source · HTML · Source checked October 4, 2026
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