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# Michael P. Tribe

Idaho Court of Appeals · Chief Judge

## Profile

- Court: Idaho Court of Appeals
- State: Idaho
- Role: Chief Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-27

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Biography

### Professional career

- Judge, Idaho Court of Appeals, appointed January 2024 by Gov
- Chief Judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals, a position he assumed on January 23, 2024 under Governor Brad Little
- Appointed to the Idaho Court of Appeals on January 23, 2024, and is identified by the official court as chief judge
- Chief Judge Michael P. Tribe is the Chief Judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals, appointed in January 2024, with a background in small-town Idaho law, criminal defense, and water rights litigation
- Appointed district judge in 2017, he served the Fifth District, among them felony drug-court work
- Attorney at Robinson, Anthon & Tribe in Rupert
- Barry Wood — law clerk

### Education

- University of Idaho — J.D. (2003)
- Bachelor’s degree, Southern Utah University (1999)

### Additional information

- Small-town Idaho attorney before taking the bench
- focusing on water law, criminal defense, and representation for small governments
- Practiced at Robinson, Anthon & Tribe in Rupert in water, criminal, and local-government law.

## 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/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)
- [biography](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/ica-judges/michael-p-tribe)
- [current_membership](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/ica-judges)

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