Draft:Byron J. Johnson

Byron Jerald Johnson (August 2, 1937 – December 9, 2012) was a justice of the Idaho Supreme Court from 1988 to 1999.

Johnson graduated from Harvard Law School in 1962.

"attended Harvard College on an academic scholarship, graduating in 1959 with honors in history. He was a pitcher on the Harvard varsity baseball team in 1958 and 1959."

In 1980, Johnson served on a committee assembled at the request of the Idaho Supreme Court to recommend revisions to the state's criminal sentencing statutes, for which Johnson wrote standards that came to by used by judges in the state in sentencing in capital cases.

On December 17, 1987, Governor Cecil Andrus announced Johnson's appointment to the state supreme court, having selected Johnson from a list of candidates recommended by the Idaho Judicial Council. Andrus cited Johnson's experience and status as a practicing attorney in making the decision.

"In 1960, Byron married Marie Elizabeth Rauseo of Everett, Massachusetts. They had [two sons and two daughters]. ... In 1980, Byron and Marie were divorced. In 1984, Byron and Patricia G. Young were married."

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