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Chief Justice tells Idaho Senate judges need pay boost, four new judges to ease heavy caseloads
Summary
The chief justice delivered the State of the Judiciary, detailing heavy trial-court workloads, recruiting and retention challenges and requesting funding for four new judges and a move toward $200,000 trial-court salaries to improve recruitment and retention.
The Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court delivered the annual State of the Judiciary address to the Idaho State Senate on Jan. 15, outlining heavy trial-court workloads, declining applicant pools for judgeships and a request for additional funding and higher salaries.
The address asked the Legislature to fund four new judges across counties with acute backlogs and to consider increasing trial-court judge pay to about $200,000 annually. "We're requesting funding for 4 new judges across these counties," the Chief Justice said, and urged that judicial compensation be made more competitive to retain and recruit qualified candidates.
Why it matters: the chief justice said mounting caseloads and a shrinking number of applicants threaten timely access to…
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