Resume: Kootenai County magistrate for 11 years, 52, married, three children … Air intelligence officer … Graduated from Gonzaga law school in 1976 … Kootenai County deputy prosecutor … county public defender … went into private practice specializing in family law and criminal defense.

Qualifications: “I have a great empathy and concern for children” … member of an Idaho Law Foundation committee to educate youths about the law … member of an Idaho Supreme Court committee on domestic violence … “My primary objective in sentencing is to protect the public. That makes me hard or stern with driving under the influence, crimes of violence … and drugs.” , DataTimes