Joel D. Horton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Joel D. Horton

American judge

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1959

Place of Birth: Nampa, Idaho, United States

Profession: judge, lawyer

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Joel David Horton (born October 30, 1959) is a former justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, appointed in 2007. Born in Nampa, Idaho, Horton lived in Lewiston as a youth and later in Boise; he graduated from Borah High School in Boise in 1977.
He attended the University of Washington in Seattle and received a B.A.
in political science in 1982.
Horton then attended the University of Idaho in Moscow and received his J.D.
from its College of Law in 1985. A district judge in Boise, Horton was appointed to the state's highest court twelve years ago by Governor Butch Otter in September 2007 to fill the vacancy of the retiring Linda Copple Trout.
He narrowly retained his seat in the statewide election (50.1%) in May 2008, but was re-elected by a wide margin (65.8%) six years later in 2014. In June 2018, Horton announced he would retire at the end of December.