Ronald Bush at a glance
- Current role
- Magistrate
- Current assignment
- District Court, D. Idaho
- Jurisdiction
- Idaho · Federal
- Judicial service
- Active
Ronald Bush
Magistrate · U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho
Service record and verification
Judicial service and assignments
- U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho · Magistrate · Active · October 1, 2008–present · Assignment source ↗
Appointment and verification
- Source authority
- CourtListener / Free Law Project
Biography
Professional career
- Ronald E. Bush was a federal magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, serving from 2008 until his retirement in 2021, and later as Chief Magistrate Judge until his departure
- Ronald E. Bush was appointed as a U.S. Magistrate Judge in 2008 for the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, a position renewable for eight years
- Practiced at Hawley Troxell, became Sixth District judge in 2003, and federal magistrate on October 1, 2008
- Before joining the federal judiciary, Bush was a partner at the law firm Hawley, Troxell, Ennis & Hawley until 2003, when he joined the Idaho 6th Judicial District
- Judge Bush’s tenure included significant work in federal civil cases, election law, and community service
Education
- George Washington University School of Law in — J.D. (1983)
- Ronald E. Bush obtained a University of Idaho bachelor’s degree in 1979 and George Washington University JD in 1983.
- University of Idaho in — B.A. (1979)
Additional information
- Magistrate, District Court, D. Idaho, 2008-present
- He held the role of Chief Magistrate Judge from October 1, 2015, until his retirement on June 10, 2021.
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
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, December 1, 2025
U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho
Civil actions in United States District Courts; Rule 81 exceptions apply. Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule.
Official source ↗ · Collected 2026-10-27Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, December 1, 2025
U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho
Criminal proceedings in United States District Courts; this conservative mapping does not distribute appellate-specific provisions to appellate judges. Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule.
Official source ↗ · Collected 2026-10-27Sources
Identity source checked June 30, 2026.
Biography sources checked August 2, 2026.
U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho current judicial profile
Identity source · HTML · CourtListener / Free Law Project · effective October 1, 2008 · Source checked August 2, 2026
View U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho current judicial profile ↗Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6
Statewide source · HTML · Idaho Supreme Court · effective January 1, 2025 · Source checked July 27, 2026
View Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6 ↗