Richard Bevan | |
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Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court | |
Assumed office January 1, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Roger Burdick |
Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court | |
Assumed office September 27,2017 | |
Appointed by | Butch Otter |
Preceded by | Dan Eismann |
Personal details | |
Born | George Richard Bevan May 5,1959 Twin Falls,Idaho,U.S. |
Spouse | Pamela Bevan |
Children | 5 |
Education | Brigham Young University (BS,JD) |
George Richard Bevan (born May 5,1959) is an American attorney and jurist who currently is the chief justice of Idaho. [1] He previously served as an Idaho district court judge from 2003 until 2017, [1] when he was appointed to the supreme court.
Born and raised in Twin Falls,Idaho,Bevan graduated from Twin Falls High School in 1977, [1] and then attended Brigham Young University in Provo,Utah. He earned a Bachelor of Science in business management and finance in 1984,and completed a Juris Doctor at the J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1987. [2]
Bevan served as the Twin Falls County prosecuting attorney from 1993 to 1997 as a Republican. [3] He was a partner in the law firm Hillifield &Bevan from 1997 to 2003. [1]
In 2003,Governor Dirk Kempthorne appointed Bevan as a state judge on the Idaho District Court for the 5th judicial district,which covers the south central portion of the state. He was re-elected in 2006,2010,and 2014. [4]
Bevan was considered by Idaho's Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch for a possible nomination as a federal judge,but David Nye was selected in 2016. [2]
In April 2017,Idaho Supreme Court justice Dan Eismann announced that he would retire on August 31. [5] The Idaho Judicial Council provided Governor Butch Otter with four replacement candidates to choose from:Bevan,state judges John Stegner and Greg Moeller,and attorney Rebecca Rainey. [6] Otter announced on August 29 that he had selected Bevan for the vacancy; [6] Stegner was appointed to the court the following May.
Bevan was sworn in as a justice of the supreme court on September 27,2017. [7] Unopposed in the 2018 election, [8] his current term expires in January 2025; the nonpartisan election is held within the statewide primary election in May. [5] Through a vote of his peers on the supreme court,he was elected chief justice in November 2020 and began serving in that capacity on January 1,2021. [9]
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