Montana is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders Idaho to the west,North Dakota and South Dakota to the east,Wyoming to the south,and the Canadian provinces of Alberta,British Columbia,and Saskatchewan to the north. It is the fourth-largest state by area,the eighth-least populous state,and the third-least densely populated state. Its capital is Helena,while the most populous city is Billings. The western half of the state contains numerous mountain ranges,while the eastern half is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands,with smaller mountain ranges found throughout the state.
Karla Marie Gray was an American attorney and judge who served as the chief justice of the Montana Supreme Court;she was the first woman to serve as Chief Justice and to be elected to the Montana Supreme Court.
James A. Rice is an American attorney,judge,and politician. He is one of the six Associate Justices currently on the Montana Supreme Court. Rice won an unopposed retention vote in 2014.
Jerry Joseph O'Connell was an American attorney and politician. He is most notable for his service as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Montana.
Samuel Vernon Stewart was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician,an attorney,former Montana Supreme Court Justice and the sixth Governor of Montana.
Jesse A. Laslovich is an American attorney and politician who has served as the United States Attorney for the District of Montana since 2022. He previously served as a member of the Montana House of Representatives and Montana Senate.
Stephen Clark Bullock is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 24th governor of Montana from 2013 to 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Brian Matthew Morris is an American attorney who serves as the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Montana. He is a former justice of the Montana Supreme Court,having been elected in 2004. Morris successfully retained his position in the 2012 election. He is also a former fullback for the Stanford Cardinal football team.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Montana took place on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate from Montana,concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Beth Baker is an American lawyer who has served an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court. Elected on November 2,2010 and sworn into office on January 3,2011,she became the fourth woman to serve on Montana's highest bench. She took the seat of the retired Justice W. William Leaphart. Originally from Spokane,Washington,she graduated magna cum laude in 1982 from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in Speech Communication. Baker received her law degree,with high honors,from the University of Montana School of Law in 1985.
Diane MacDonald Barz was an American judge. She was the first woman to serve as a member of the Montana Supreme Court,a position she held from September 1989 to 1990. She also served as an assistant United States attorney from 1991 to 1994. Her career covered many firsts for women in Montana legal history,and she also ran the Montana Youth Court for over fifteen years,where she founded the Youth Court Conference Committee.
Albert John Galen was the Montana Attorney General from 1905 to 1913,and a justice of the Montana Supreme Court from 1921 to 1933.
Fred L. Gibson was an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court from 1947 to 1948.
Horace S. Davis was an appointed Justice of the Montana Supreme Court,serving from 1954 to 1957.
John A. Matthews was a justice of the Montana Supreme Court from 1919 to 1920,and again from 1925 to 1937.
Dirk M. Sandefur is an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court. His term began on January 2,2017. He served for eight years as a criminal and civil Deputy Attorney for Cascade County,Montana,before being elected a judge on the 8th Judicial District of the Montana District Court in 2002. He ran for and won election to the Montana Supreme Court in 2016.
William Edward Hunt,Sr. was an American soldier,lawyer,and jurist. He served as the County Attorney for Liberty County,Montana,and later as the mayor of Chester,Montana. During his tenure as mayor,he founded the Montana Consumers Council. From 1970 to 1975,he served as the Director of the Montana Aeronautics Commission. He was appointed the first Montana Workers' Compensation Court judge in July 1975,organizing the court and serving until August 1981. He won a nonpartisan election as an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court in 1984,and served from January 2,1985,until his retirement on December 31,2000.
A general election in the state of Montana was held on Tuesday,November 3,2020,with the primary elections being held on June 2,2020. Voters will elect one member to United States House of Representatives and all five state constitutional offices,among other elected offices.
Kristen Juras is an American businesswoman,attorney,law professor,and politician serving as the 37th lieutenant governor of Montana. A Republican,Juras was first elected in November 2020 and assumed office on January 4,2021.
Raphael "Raph" Jeffrey Carlisle Graybill is an American attorney who served as chief legal counsel to Steve Bullock,the Governor of Montana,from 2017 to 2021. Graybill was a candidate for attorney general of Montana in the 2020 general election. Currently,Graybill is running for Lieutenant Governor in the upcoming 2024 gubernatorial election in Montana.
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