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Sergio A. Gutierrez

A candidate for Idaho Supreme Court, State of Idaho in the 2016 Idaho Primary, May 17

Party: No party

City: Nampa, Idaho

A judge on the Idaho Court of Appeals since 2002, Gutierrez first became an Idaho district court judge in 1993. He previously practiced law in Caldwell and worked for Idaho Legal Aid Services and the Idaho Migrant Council. He holds a bachelor's degree, cum laude, in elementary education from Boise State University and a law degree from the University of California Hastings Law School. Gutierrez is Idaho's first - and still only - Latino judge. He was the recipient of the Idaho Supreme Court’s Kramer Award for Excellence in Judicial Administration Kramer Award in 2013.

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