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Lynn Norton
District Judge · Idaho District Court, Judicial District 4
Biography
Professional career
- Appointed district judge, Fourth Judicial District, 2011
- Lynn Graham Norton is a district judge for Idaho’s 4th Judicial District
- District Judge in the 4th Judicial District Court of Idaho, which covers Ada, Boise, Elmore, and Valley counties
Education
- University of Alabama School of Law — J.D. (1990)
- University of Alabama — B.A. (1987)
Additional information
- In April 2023, Judge Norton issued a ruling requiring 15 school districts, child care providers, and other organizations to provide extensive documents to the Idaho Attorney General in a case over alleged misuse of federal grant funds.
- U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve, 23 years, including 10 years active duty as a JAG
- Deputy prosecutor, Ada County, 10 years before appointment
- Before becoming a judge, Norton was a deputy prosecutor with the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office.
- handling felony cases, high‐value civil cases, and presiding over the Ada County Drug Court
- She has also served 23 years in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve, including roles as a chief of claims, military prosecutor, criminal defense counsel, contract litigator, and instructor at the Air Force JAG School
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 District Court, Judicial District 4
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
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Current Membership source · HTML · Source checked October 4, 2026
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