Gerald F. Schroeder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetGerald F. Schroeder
American judge
Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1939
Place of Birth: Boise, Idaho, United States
Profession: judge
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Gerald F. Schroeder
- Gerald F.
- Schroeder (born September 13, 1939) is a former chief justice of the Idaho Supreme Court.
- He was appointed to the court in 1995 by Governor Phil Batt, and was elected chief justice by his peers in 2004.
- He served on the court for over a dozen years and retired in July 2007.Born in Boise, Idaho, Schroeder attended public schools in Caldwell and Baker, Oregon, where he was salutatorian at Baker High School in 1957.
- He attended the College of Idaho in Caldwell and received a B.A.
- in history in 1961, and originally had planned to be a history professor.
- He took the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) on a whim and did well and was accepted to law school at Harvard University near Boston, and earned his J.D.
- in 1964. Schroeder returned to Idaho and worked for several firms in Boise for three years, was appointed a deputy U.S.
- attorney in 1967, became a county probate judge in 1969, and a magistrate two years later.
- He became a state judge in 1975 in the fourth district (Boise), a position he held for two decades, until his appointment to the state supreme court in January 1995.
- Schroeder retained his seat in 1996 and 2002, unopposed in both statewide elections. As a district judge, Schroeder made headlines in 1987 as he ruled that the state lottery initiative, approved by voters the previous November, was unconstitutional.
- His decision was upheld 4-1 by the state supreme court, and resulted in an amendment to the state constitution.
- Voters approved that in November 1988, and the lottery was launched in July 1989.Schroeder handed out a death sentence to double-murderer Keith Wells in 1992, which was carried out in January 1994, Idaho's first execution in over 36 years and only the tenth in state history.
- He was among the officials that witnessed the execution by lethal injection at the state prison, south of Boise.
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