predecessor successor children birth_place office termstart termend appointer birth_date spouse article_title name alma_mater
charles mcdevitt none roger burdick alan schwartzman 2 sons , 1 daughter rexburg , idaho justice the idaho court of appeals of the idaho supreme court chief judge of 1997 9 2 1982 1 4 2003 7 31 1997 9 2 governor phil batt governor john evans 26 december 1938 harriett walters jesse walters
 jesse walters university of idaho -lrb- j.d. 1963 -rrb-
jesse walters

jesse r. walters , jr. -lrb- born december 26 , 1938 -rrb- is a former justice of the idaho supreme court , a member from 1997 to 2003 .
born in rexburg , idaho , walters graduated from idaho falls high school in 1957 , then attended ricks college in rexburg for a year .
he transferred to the university of idaho in moscow , where received his bachelor 's degree and a j.d. from its college of law in 1963 .
he passed the bar in idaho that year and clerked at the idaho supreme court for a year , then entered private practice .
in 1977 , walters was appointed a state judge in the fourth district -lrb- boise -rrb- by governor john evans and was the first chief judge of the idaho court of appeals , which began in 1982 .
fifteen years later , he was appointed by governor phil batt in 1997 to fill the vacancy of the retiring charles mcdevitt on the state supreme court .
walters was unopposed in 1998 and retired in 2003 , succeeded by roger burdick .
