It is unclear whether an attorney running to become a judge in Ada County meets the legal requirements to be an Idaho judge, a spokesperson for the agency that manages state elections said Tuesday.
David J. Morse, who works in the federal prosecutor’s office at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Idaho, is one of three candidates running to be a district judge in Idaho’s 4th judicial district in the May 19 election.
Morse was first licensed to practice law in Idaho in October 2016, his licensing record with the Idaho State Bar shows. That start date puts him months shy of meeting the requirement in state law to have been licensed to practice law for at least a decade, for the May election, which is when district judges are elected. But by the November general election, he would meet the statutory requirement. District judges elected this May are sworn in next January…