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# Warren Jones

Supreme Court of Idaho · Judge

## Profile

- Court: Supreme Court of Idaho
- State: Idaho
- Role: Judge
- Service status: former
- Last verified: 2026-08-22

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Biography

### Professional career

- Judge, Idaho Supreme Court, 2007-present
- Warren E. Jones (1943–2018) was an American judge who served on the Idaho Supreme Court from 2007 until his retirement in 2017, known for his fair, collegial, and impartial judicial temperament
- In 2007, Idaho Governor Butch Otter appointed Jones to the Idaho Supreme Court to replace Chief Justice Gerald Schroeder
- First appointed to the court by Governor Butch Otter on June 26, 2007 to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Chief Justice Gerald Schroeder
- Judicial service: Governor Butch Otter, a college classmate, appointed him in summer 2007 after Chief Justice Gerald Schroeder’s departure.
- Legal career: law clerk for Idaho Chief Justice Joseph J. McFadden (1968–1970); private practice at Eberle, Berlin, Kading, Turnbow, McKlveen & Jones until 2007
- After law school, Jones held the role of a law clerk to Idaho Chief Justice Joseph J. McFadden (1968–1970).

### Education

- University of Chicago Law School — J.D. (1968)
- in political science, magna cum laude, College of Idaho — B.A. (1965)

### Additional information

- Overview reports strokes in 2014 and 2018; death September 3, 2018, age 74; burial at Dry Creek Cemetery, Boise.
- Retirement and death: retired December 31, 2017, three years before term end, citing personal and family health circumstances.
- Elected unopposed to six-year terms in 2008 and 2014.
- He was reelected in 2008 and 2014 without opposition.
- He then joined the Boise law firm Eberle, Berlin, Kading, Turnbow, McKlveen & Jones in 1970, rising to senior litigator.
- Early life and education: born October 19, 1943, Montpelier, Idaho; grade school in Ogden, Utah; valedictorian, Butte County High School, Arco (1961)
- Born October 19, 1943 in Montpelier, Idaho, Jones attended grade school in Ogden, Utah, and graduated valedictorian from Butte County High School in Arco, Idaho, in 1961.
- Date of birth: 1943-01-01
- He also received a Ford Foundation Fellowship for advanced study in criminal law at Northwestern University School of Law
- Over 37 years, he tried over 122 jury cases in 38 of Idaho’s 44 counties, specializing in insurance defense, product liability, professional malpractice, and commercial litigation
- Served over ten years.
- Overview characterizes his ideological leaning as conservative using a campaign finance score of 1.07; this is a source characterization, not adjudicated here.
- Overview describes a legacy of long service on Idaho’s highest court.
- Birth place: Montpelier

## 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://www.courtlistener.com/person/4159/warren-jones/)
- [Official roster](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/4159/warren-jones/)
- [Supreme Court of Idaho current judicial profile](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/4159/warren-jones/)
- [Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs)
- [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/4159/warren-jones/)
- [Warren E. Jones - Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Warren_E._Jones)
- [Remembering justice Warren Jones](https://collegeofidaho.edu/news/alumni-news/remembering-justice-warren-jones)
- [Wikidata: Warren Jones](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7970309)
- [sitting_membership_end](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/ica-judges)
- [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/4159/warren-jones/)
- [Warren E. Jones - Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Warren_E._Jones)
- [Remembering justice Warren Jones](https://collegeofidaho.edu/news/alumni-news/remembering-justice-warren-jones)
- [Wikidata: Warren Jones](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7970309)

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