Howard Belodoff is the Associate Director of Idaho Legal Aid Services, Inc. and has a part time private office. In 1978 Mr. Belodoff received a Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship from Howard University after graduating from the University of Idaho College of Law. Mr. Belodoff’s trial and appellate work has focused on complex civil rights. He has established case precedents of national significance. The decisions concern fair housing, religious, transgender, sex, and sexual orientation discrimination and the constitutional rights under the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments on behalf of institutionalized and mentally ill children and adults, unhoused persons, same sex couples, inmates and prisoners, farm workers, persons with HIV, the protection of the religious and trust land rights of Native Americans, and the awarding of statutory attorney fees including fourteen successful appeals in the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Belodoff was honored to receive the 2021 Idaho State Bar “Distinguished Lawyer” Award, the 2019 Reginald Heber Smith Justice Award by the NLADA and the 2018 Idaho Trial Lawyers Association “Trial Lawyer of the Year” Award. He is currently the Idaho District Court’s Ninth Circuit Lawyer’s Representative, has been named a “Super Lawyer” since 2010 and is a Martindale-Hubbell Most Honored Lawyer.