Joel Horton at a glance
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- Former Judge
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Joel Horton
Former Judge · Supreme Court of Idaho
Biography
Professional career
- Judge, Idaho Supreme Court, 2007-present
- Joel David Horton is an American lawyer and retired judge who held the role of a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court from 2007 to 2018
- In September 2007, Governor Butch Otter appointed Horton to succeed Justice Linda Copple Trout
- 1996–2007: Judge, Idaho 4th Judicial District
- Twin Falls deputy prosecutor 1986–88, Ada prosecutor 1988–90 and 1992–94, deputy attorney general 1991–92, Ada magistrate 1994–96 and Fourth District judge 1996–2007
- 1994–1996: Ada County Magistrate Judge
Education
- University of Idaho College of Law in — J.D. (1985)
- B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington in 1982
- Political science bachelors at University of Washington in 1982
Additional information
- Idaho Supreme Court from 2007 to 2018, appointed by Governor Otter to succeed Linda Copple Trout.
- Horton grew up in Lewiston and Boise, graduating from Borah High School in 1977.
- Born October 30, 1959, in Nampa, Idaho.
- Date of birth: 1959-01-01
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Idaho's statewide electronic-filing rule generally requires text-searchable PDF or PDF/A submissions and a 50 MB per-document limit; scanned-image attachments and exhibits may use standard PDF and are not rejected for the usual text-searchability format requirement.
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Sources
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