Rick Carnaroli at a glance
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Rick Carnaroli
District Judge · Idaho District Court, Judicial District 6
Biography
Professional career
- Selected as a district judge in Pocatello, Idaho, in January 2018 and has served in this role since then
- District judge, Sixth Judicial District, appointed January 2018 by Gov
- Judge Carnaroli has been active in promoting access to justice and legal mentorship
Education
- Willamette University in — J.D. (1985)
- Economics, English, and Philosophy, Pacific University — B.A. (1980)
- Undergraduate degree from Pacific University in 1980
Additional information
- He has been heavily involved in specialized courts, notably directing the Sixth District Veterans Treatment Court since its inception in April 2012.
- Idaho Pro Bono Commission since 2008, acted as a Statewide Mentor Judge, and held leadership roles in the Idaho Magistrate Judges Association.
- Idaho Judicial Council member from January 2026
- Prior to this, he held the role of a magistrate judge in Pocatello from 2004 to 2018.
- He was admitted to the Idaho State Bar and Idaho Federal Bar in 1985, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1993, and the Supreme Court of the United States in 1999.
- Before joining the bench, he practiced law with Green, Service, Gasser & Kerl and later held the role of Chief Civil Deputy and Risk Manager for the City of Pocatello starting in 1994
- Private practice
- City attorney, Pocatello
- C.L. Otter; chambered in Bannock County
- Carnaroli also serves as Co-Chair of Idaho’s Tribal Court State Court Forum and represents the Idaho judiciary on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Committee
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 6
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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