13 Facts About Amanda Brailsford

Amanda Kathleen Brailsford was born on 1967 and is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Idaho.

Amanda Brailsford previously served as a judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals from 2019 to 2023.

Amanda Brailsford received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Idaho in Moscow in 1989 and a Juris Doctor from its College of Law in 1993.

Amanda Brailsford was a founding partner of the law firm of Andersen Banducci PLLC from 2013 to 2017.

On November 30,2018, Amanda Brailsford was appointed as a judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals by Governor Butch Otter to the seat vacated by the retirement of Judge Sergio Gutierrez.

Amanda Brailsford assumed office in 2019 and left in 2023 to become a federal judge.

In 2022, Amanda Brailsford wrote the opinion for the Idaho Court of Appeals affirming an aggravated DUI conviction for Cyrus Buehler.

Also that year, Amanda Brailsford wrote the opinion for the court affirming Shoshone County Sheriff Darrell Gunderson's decision to deny a concealed weapons license to Robert Peterson.

On January 18,2023, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Amanda Brailsford to serve as a United States district judge of the US District Court in Idaho.

Amanda Brailsford received her judicial commission on May 17,2023, and was sworn in on May 19,2023.

Amanda Brailsford is the first woman to serve on the US District Court in Idaho.

In Creech v United States District Court for the District of Idaho, Brailsford received calls to recuse herself from a lawsuit brought by death row inmate Thomas Eugene Creech alleging prosecutorial fabrication of evidence.

Amanda Brailsford had a close personal friendship with Ada County Prosecutor Jan Bennetts, whose office oversaw the prosecution of Creech for the 1981 murder of inmate David Dale Jenson.