Commission picks new Magistrate Judge

Idaho Falls lawyer Steven William Boyce has been named as the new Bonneville County Magistrate Judge. Boyce will fill the new judgeship position created by the Idaho Legislature last year effective October 1. Boyce was selected from a field of 8 candidates by the Seventh Judicial District Magistrates Commission. Administrative District Judge Joel Tingey said both he and the Commission were confident the people of Bonneville County and the Seventh Judicial District would be well-served. Boyce attended Brigham Young University. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in 1992 and completed his law degree in 1995 at the University of Idaho College of Law in Moscow, Idaho. He served as a Bonneville County deputy prosecutor under Kipp Manwaring from December 1996 to May 2003 and continued as chief Deputy Prosecutor under Dane Watkins. Boyce was self-employed from May 2003 to March 2014 and joined the firm of Smith and Banks in March 2014 and stayed on as it merged with Hawley Troxell Ennis and Hawley.