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Robert C. Naftz
District Judge · Idaho District Court, Judicial District 6
Biography
Professional career
- Robert C. Naftz is a judge of the Idaho 6th Judicial District Court, appointed by Governor Butch Otter in 2009 and re‐elected in 2014, with a career spanning public defense, prosecution, and legal service before the bench
- Deputy attorney general from 2000
- Associate, Whittier, Souza, McDougall, Murray & Clark
- Deputy prosecutor, Power County
- Appointed district judge by Gov
- His background in both prosecution and defense, plus his service in the Attorney General’s Office, informs his judicial approach
- District Judge for the 6th Judicial District of Idaho, which includes Bannock, Bear Lake, Caribou, Franklin, Oneida, and Power Counties
- He has also held assignments as the Administrative District Judge for Bannock County
Education
- University of Idaho College of Law — J.D. (1990)
- Colorado State University — B.A. (1986)
Additional information
- Butch Otter, September 11, 2009, succeeding Peter McDermott
- September 9, 2009, by Governor C.L.
- Magistrate, Bannock County, from 2004
- Solo practice
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
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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
View Idaho Supreme Court official judicial roster ↗Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6
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