Bart M. Davis

Bart M. Davis is honored to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho in a second term. During his first tenure as U.S. Attorney, from 2017 to 2021, Mr. Davis worked closely with law enforcement to combat crime throughout the District and served on the Attorney General Advisory Council’s Native American Issues Subcommittee, the Border and Immigration Subcommittee, and the Marijuana Working Group.

Mr. Davis and his wife of forty-nine years, Marion Woffinden Davis, are lifelong Idahoans, having raised their six children in Idaho Falls, Idaho. They now have fourteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. Mr. Davis is active in his church, Rotary Club, and the Idaho legal community.

After receiving his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University, Mr. Davis earned his juris doctor from the University of Idaho. In the more than forty years since, he practiced construction, real property, business, commercial, and bankruptcy law. He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho, the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. In 1990, he was co-counsel on a tax case before the United States Supreme Court, Davis v. United States, 495 U.S. 472.

Mr. Davis is active in the Idaho State Bar (ISB). He has served the state bar, federal bar, and the Idaho Supreme Court in many ways, including on the Judicial Independence and Integrity Committee. He served the federal courts for six years as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference (including Conference Executive Committee), eleven years on the Bankruptcy Court Rules Committee (Reporter from 1998 to 2001), Chapter 13 Plan Subcommittee (Reporter), and Long‑Range Planning Committee. He is a frequent speaker at legal continuing education programs. He was a founding board member and past-chair of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section. He was also the chair and member of the University of Idaho College of Law Advisory Council, the Idaho Law Review Advisory Board, and the 2007 College of Law Conclave. Mr. Davis is a co-author of the article, Use of Legislative History: Willow Witching for Legislative Intent, 43 University of Idaho College of Law Review 585 (2007), and author of Idaho’s Messy History with Term Limits: A Modest Response, 52 University of Idaho College of Law Review 463 (2016).

From 2001 to 2017 and from 2021 to 2025, Mr. Davis was a commissioner on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. He served on the Committee on Relations with other Organizations, Committee on Federalism and State Law, History Committee, Committee on State and Federal Relations, Committee on Revisions to the Uniform Parentage Act, and Committee on Parliamentary Practice.

In addition to his seasoned legal practice, Mr. Davis holds the unique distinction of serving as the longest Senate Majority Leader from 2002 to 2017 after first being elected an Idaho Senator in 1998.

In 2021, Mr. Davis co-chaired the bipartisan Idaho Commission for Reapportionment. In this capacity, Mr. Davis was honored to work alongside his co-chair and six commissioners to redraw the boundaries of Idaho’s 35 legislative districts and two congressional districts.

During Mr. Davis’s distinguished legislative career, he was a member of the Idaho State Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee, the State Affairs Committee, and the Legislative Council. He was also a Commissioner on the Governor’s Line 2 Commission and the Leadership in Nuclear Energy Commission, and was appointed to the Idaho Bond Bank Authority, the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and the Capital Restoration Advisory Committee on Legislative Relocation. In addition to serving as a member of the Council of State Governments (CSG) and CSG-WEST, Mr. Davis’s contributions included stints as CSG Chair, CSG-West Chair, and CSG-West Working Group Chair. Mr. Davis was one of twelve members of a national task force dedicated to determining strategy for amicus curiae participation in the U.S. Supreme Court on issues relating to federalism. In 1999, he was awarded the Henry Toll Fellowship.

Mr. Davis was honored to be presented the Award of Legal Merit from the University of Idaho College of Law in 2021 and the Leaders in Law Award Lifetime Achievement Award from the Idaho Business Review in 2020, as well as an ICON Award in 2021. He had the privilege of being designated as Idaho Fraternal Order of Police’s 2016 Legislator of the Year and the Idaho Library Association’s 2012 Legislator of the Year. In 2011, Mr. Davis received the Angel in Adoption Award from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. Earlier, he was acknowledged by the Idaho Judicial Conference in 2010 for Extraordinary Contributions to the Improved Administration of Justice in Idaho. Other accolades include the Idaho Association of Cities 2010 Professor Boyd A. Martin Award and the Cesar Chavez/Dolores Huerta Farmworker Justice Award. It was a privilege for Mr. Davis to participate with the American Jewish Committee and CSG on the Project Israel Interchange.