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Nancy Baskin
District Judge · Idaho District Court, Judicial District 4
Biography
Professional career
- Raised in Twin Falls, Idaho, Judge Baskin has lived in Ada County since 1983
- Staff attorney to U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge for more than 20 years
- Legal Practice: Private practice with Givens Pursley; then career staff attorney for U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge for over 23 years
- Appointed district judge by Gov
Education
- University of Idaho; admitted to the Idaho State Bar September — J.D. (1991)
- Undergraduate degrees in business and political science, University of Idaho
- M.B.A. — Boise State University
Additional information
- Judge Baskin has been serving since her appointment on December 5, 2016 by Governor C.L.
- Member of the Idaho Judicial Council from January 1, 2022
- Butch Otter, December 5, 2016
- Five years at Boise Cascade before law school
- Nonpartisan District Judge for Idaho’s 4th Judicial District, presiding over felony criminal cases and civil matters over $10,000 in Ada and Elmore counties, and serving on the Idaho Judicial Council
- She enjoys tennis, hiking, and cycling
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
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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