Daniel Eismann
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Daniel Eismann is the Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, a position he has held since January 2001, having been elected by the people of Idaho in November 2000.
Eismann enrolled at the University of Idaho and, in 1967, left the University to enlist in the United States Army. He served two consecutive tours of duty in Vietnam. As a crew chief/door gunner on a Huey gunship, he was awarded two purple hearts for being wounded in combat and three medals for heroism.
After being honorably discharged from the military, he returned to the University of Idaho where he received his undergraduate degree and then graduated cum laude from law school in 1976. After practicing law for ten years, Justice Eismann was appointed as the Magistrate Judge in Owyhee County. As a magistrate judge, he was a member of the Region III Council for Children and Youth; he helped create Children’s Voices, Inc., an organization to recruit, train and oversee guardians ad litem to represent the interests of neglected and abused children in court proceedings; he organized and served upon a community diversion board to handle outside the judicial system first-time juvenile offenders who committed minor crimes; and he chaired the Canyon County Juvenile Justice Task Force.
In 1995, Governor Batt appointed Justice Eismann as a district judge in Ada County. Convinced that there must be a more effective way to deal with the burgeoning drug problem, Justice Eismann began working to set up a drug court in Ada County. In 1998, Ada County was awarded a federal grant, and in February 1999 the drug court began receiving participants. Justice Eismann presided over that drug court until just prior to taking office as a Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court. While a district judge, he also served on the Ada County Domestic Violence Task Force.
Committees
On the court, Justice Eismann serves as chair of the Civil Rules Committee, the Criminal Jury Instructions Committee, and the statewide Drug Court and Mental Health Court Coordinating Committee. He is a member and past-president of the Boise Chapter of the Inns of Court and currently serves on the boards of the Idaho State Bar Lawyers Assistance Program, which provides assistance to lawyers with substance abuse problems, and of the Idaho Law Foundation. He also serves on the Criminal Justice Commission created by then-Governor Kempthorne in 2005 and the Interagency Committee on Substance Abuse and Treatment.
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