TERRY S. RATLIFF

290 South Second East

Mountain Home, ID 83647

(208) 587-0900

 

 

EXPERIENCE           Ratliff Law Offices, Chtd., General Practice

                                    Mountain Home, Idaho

                                    March 2000 --- Present;

Emphasis in Criminal Defense, Personal Injury, Family Law,

Real Estate, and Administrative Law. Qualified as Lead Counsel

and Co-Counsel in State Death Penalty cases.

 

Ratliff Law Offices, Chtd., General Practice

                                    Boise, Idaho

                                    September 1995 – March 2000;

Emphasis in Criminal Defense, Personal Injury, Family Law, Real Estate, and Administrative Law.

 

Kirkendall Law Offices, General Practice

Boise, Idaho

February 1994 - September 1995;

Emphasis in Criminal Defense, Family Law, Real Estate, Probate and Administrative Law. Appointed to the Federal CJA panel of Defense Attorneys.

 

Ratliff Law Offices, Chtd., General Practice

Mountain Home, Idaho

August 1988 - February 1994;

General practice of law with an emphasis in Criminal Defense, Personal Injury, Family Law, and Social Security Law. Also worked in real estate, probate, and bankruptcy. Supervised up to four part-time staff. The first eighteen (18) months of this time period was spent as the Elmore County Public Defender.

 

McLaughlin Law Offices, General Practice

Honorable Michael R. McLaughlin, District Judge, Mountain Home, Idaho.

October 1986 - August 1988; General practice of law doing Criminal Defense, Family Law and other general practice areas. Also, City Prosecutor for the City of Glenns Ferry, Idaho.

 

Lewiston City Attorney’s Office, Deputy Prosecutor

Edwin L. Litteneker, City Attorney, Lewiston, Idaho.

September 1985 – August 1986. Legal Intern responsible for prosecuting

Misdemeanor criminal cases for the City.

 

U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Law Clerk

Honorable J. Blaine Anderson, Circuit Judge, Boise, Idaho.

May 1985 - August 1985; Intern. Clerk Position, drafting opinions for use by the Court.

 

 

EDUCATION            Juris Doctor, May 1986.

University of Idaho, College of Law, Moscow, Idaho.

Christian Legal Society member.

Editor, Notes and Comments, Idaho Law Review .

Author, "The Petition for Review: Idaho Appellate Rule 118 and

the Idaho Supreme Court."

President, Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity.

Member, American Judicature Society.

Member, Idaho Trial Lawyers Association.

 

Baccalaureate of Science/Political Science, May 1983.

Boise State University. Dean's List .

Senator for the School of Arts & Sciences.

 

Both college degrees 100% self-supported.

 

 

CASES                        United States v. Jabin Whitlow, Case No. 03-030292 (9^th Cir. 2005)

 

United States v. Lyle March, Case No. 03-30094 (9^th Cir. 2004)

 

Ockerman v. Ada County Board of Commissioners, 130 Idaho 265,

939 P.2d 584 (Idaho App. 1997).

 

                                    State v. Shepherd, 124 Idaho 54, 855 P.2d 891 (Idaho App. 1993).

 

                                    State v. Smith, 119 Idaho 96, 803 P.2d 1002 (Idaho App. 1990).

 

                                    State v. Muir, 116 Idaho 565, 777 P.2d 1238 (Idaho App. 1989).