Marion Jones Callister

Marion Jones Callister (June 6, 1921 – June 24, 1997) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Idaho.

Education and career

Born in Moreland, Idaho, Callister graduated from Blackfoot High School in 1939 and was in the United States Army during World War II, from 1944 to 1946. He received a Bachelor of Science in Law from the University of Utah in 1950, and a Juris Doctor from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah in 1951. Callister was an assistant Bingham County attorney in Blackfoot, Idaho from 1951 to 1952, and an Assistant United States Attorney of the District of Idaho from 1953 to 1957. He was in private practice in Boise from 1958 to 1969. Callister was a state district judge from 1970 to 1975, and was thereafter the United States Attorney for the District of Idaho from 1975 to 1976.^[1]

Federal judicial service

On July 19, 1976, Callister was nominated by President Gerald Ford to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Idaho vacated by Judge J. Blaine Anderson. Callister was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 26 and received his commission on September 1, 1976. Callister served as Chief Judge from 1981 to 1988, assuming senior status on June 6, 1989.^[1] He served in that capacity for eight years until his death on June 24, 1997 in Boise.^[2]

Personal

Callister is buried at Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise. He was a Latter-day Saint.^[3] As a young man he served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was later bishop of the Boise 3rd Ward, counselor in and then president of the Boise West Stake, and a regional representative of the 12.^[4]

References

Sources

• Marion Jones Callister at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
• Marion Jones Callister at Find a Grave