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# Steven Boyce

Idaho District Court, Judicial District 7 · Administrative District Judge

## Profile

- Court: Idaho District Court, Judicial District 7
- State: Idaho
- Role: Administrative District 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 Steven W. Boyce is the appointed District Judge for Idaho’s Seventh Judicial District, covering Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Clark, Custer, Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi, Madison, and Teton counties, and is currently running for re‐election in the May 2026 primary
- Boyce has held the role of District Judge since his May 2019 appointment by Idaho Governor Brad Little
- In May 2026, Boyce faces Bonneville County Prosecutor Randy Neal in the first contested Seventh Judicial District election in 12 years
- Administrative district judge, Seventh Judicial District, in 2025
- Bonneville County Prosecutor's Office, 1996-2003, including chief deputy
- Law clerk to District Judge James Herndon
- 14 consecutive years as a Criminal Justice Act attorney in federal criminal cases
- Appointed district judge by Gov
- Neal has said he is running to give voters a choice and to emphasize accountability and victim‐centered justice

### Education

- University of Idaho College of Law — J.D. (1995)
- Bachelor's degree, Brigham Young University — 1992

### Additional information

- Brad Little, May 2019, succeeding Gregory Moeller
- Magistrate, Bonneville County, from 2017
- Solo practitioner, then Smith & Banks and Hawley Troxell
- Boyce has presided over two of Idaho’s longest and most high‐profile criminal trials — the murder cases of Chad and Lori Daybell.

## 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/judicial-directory)
- [Official roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)
- [Idaho Supreme Court official judicial roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)
- [Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs)
- [biography](https://www.postregister.com/news/local/steven-boyce-appointed-as-new-district-judge/article_07ed05f8-d6fd-524c-bbe1-1dd403e4532c.html)
- [current_membership](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)

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## Published courtroom rules

### Shared court rules

- [Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-0c38e11cda2478da65cd7ff5) — 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](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs). Collected 2026-07-27.