Grant Loebs was raised in Pocatello, where he graduated from Pocatello High School in 1979. He graduated from Idaho State University with high honors in 1983 and went to Washington, D.C. to work for Idaho’s U.S. Senator Steven D. Symms. He served there as Senator Symms’s Legislative Assistant for Defense and Foreign Policy until 1987 when President Reagan appointed him Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon. He worked in the Pentagon while attending George Washington University Law School in the evenings, graduating with high honors in 1991. In 1993, he came to Twin Falls to work as a Deputy Prosecutor. Grant was promoted to Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in 1996 where he was responsible for trying violent crimes and other major felonies. In 1997 he was unanimously nominated by the Twin Falls County Republican Central Committee to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of G. Richard Bevan. He was then unanimously appointed by the Twin Falls County Board of Commissioners to succeed Bevan as Twin Falls County Prosecuting Attorney. He was overwhelmingly elected by the citizens of Twin Falls County in 2000 and has been re-elected since.
Grant Loebs has been on the Board of Directors of the Idaho Prosecuting Attorneys Association (IPAA) since 1998. He served as the President of the IPAA in 2004, 2005, and 2016—the only prosecutor to ever be elected President by his peers three times. He was selected as the Idaho Prosecutor of the Year in 2006. He became the first non-police officer to receive the Optimist Club’s Jim Mildon Memorial Respect for Law Enforcement Award in 2005. Grant Loebs serves as Idaho’s State Representative to the National District Attorney’s Association (NDAA). He also serves on many statewide boards and committees, including the Governor’s Criminal Justice Commission, for which he won the Excellence in Service Award in 2014.
Grant has been an instructor many times over the years at the IPAA New Prosecutor Course where he teaches about the role of the prosecutor and prosecutorial ethics. He has also testified before various committees in the Idaho legislature many times on issues important to law enforcement and Twin Falls County. Grant is married to his wife, Elisha, and together they have five children.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Prosecuting Attorney for Twin Falls County, Twin Falls, Idaho, 1997-Present
- Appointed July, 1997 by Twin Falls Republican Central Committee and Twin Falls County Commissioners
- Elected November, 1998
- Re-Elected November, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 & 2016
- Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, Twin Falls County, Twin Falls, Idaho 1996-1997
- Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, Twin Falls County, Twin Falls, Idaho 1993-1996
BOARDS AND COMMITTEES
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- Idaho Prosecuting Attorneys Association, Board of Directors 1998-Present
- Idaho Prosecuting Attorneys Association, President, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, and 2016-2017
- National District Attorneys Association, Board of Directors, 2005-present
- Idaho Supreme Court Criminal Rules Committee, Committee Member 2000-2016
- Idaho Supreme Court Criminal Jury Instructions Committee, Committee Member 2004-2016
- Idaho Criminal Justice Commission, Commission Member 2005-present
- Idaho Grant Review Council, Council Member 2011-present
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
- Appointed by President Reagan as Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C., 1987-1989
- Policy Analyst for Strategic Defense and Weapon Systems, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1986-1987
- Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Steven D. Symms on Defense, Foreign Relations, Intelligence, and the Budget, Washington, D.C., 1983-1986
POLITICAL EXPERIENCE
- Member of the Idaho Republican Central Committee, 2000-present
- Legislative District #24 Chairman, 2000-present
- Twin Falls County Republican Central Committee Director, 2008-present
- Bush-Cheney Campaign Chairman, Twin Falls County, 2004
- Since 1993, worked on Campaigns for: Senator Bob Dole for President; President George W. Bush; Governor Phil Batt; Governor Dirk Kempthorne; Governor Butch Otter; Governor Brad Little; U.S. Senator Larry Craig; U.S. Senator Mike Crapo; Lt. Governor Butch Otter; Lt. Governor Brad Little; Attorney General Al Lance; Attorney General Lawrence Wasden; Supreme Court Justice Dan Eismann; Supreme Court Justice Roger Burdick; Supreme Court Justice G. Richard Bevan; Supreme Court Justice Robyn Brody; Twin Falls County Commissioner Marvin Hempleman, and others.
- 1992 Presidential Campaign of President George H.W. Bush, Washington, D.C.
- 1980 and 1986 Senatorial Campaigns of Idaho Senator Steven D. Symms, Idaho, Washington, D.C.
- 1980 and 1984 Presidential Campaigns of President Ronald Reagan, Idaho & Washington, D.C.
- Republican National Committee, Washington, D.C., 1984
- 1982 Idaho Gubernatorial Campaign of Phil Batt, Pocatello, Idaho
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
- Jim Mildon Respect for the Law Award—Twin Falls Optimist Club, 2005
- Mills-Adler Elected Official of the Year—Idaho Association of Counties, 2006
- Award of Excellence—International Association of Arson Investigators, 2007
- Excellence in Service Award—Idaho Criminal Justice Commission, 2014
EDUCATION
George Washington University National Law Center
- J.D. with Honors, June 1991 (Attended four-year Evening Program while working full-time in the Pentagon for President Ronald Reagan and clerking at a D.C. law firm.)
- Admitted to the Bar in Idaho, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., 1992
Idaho State University, B.A., December 1983
- Graduated with High Honors; Major: Political Science and Philosophy
