Jesse Raymond Walters Jr. (born December 26, 1938) is a former justice of the

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, a member from 1997 to 2003. Born in

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, Walters graduated from

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in 1957, then attended

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in Rexburg for a year. He transferred to the

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, where received his bachelor's degree and a J.D. from its

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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 (

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) by Governor John Evans and was the first chief judge of the

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, which began in 1982. Fifteen years later, he was appointed by Governor

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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.

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