George Richard Bevan (born May 5, 1959) is an American attorney and jurist who currently is the chief justice of Idaho.[1] He previously served as an Idaho district court judge from 2003 until 2017,[1] when he was appointed to the supreme court.
In April 2017, Idaho Supreme Court justice Dan Eismann announced that he would retire on August 31.[5] The Idaho Judicial Council provided Governor Butch Otter with four replacement candidates to choose from: Bevan, then-state district judges John Stegner and Greg Moeller, and attorney Rebecca Rainey.[6] Otter announced on August 29 that he had selected Bevan for the vacancy.[6] Later, both Stegner and Moeller joined Bevan on the Court.
Bevan was sworn in as a justice of the supreme court on September 27, 2017.[7] Unopposed in the 2018 election,[8] his current term expires in January 2025; the nonpartisan election is held within the statewide primary election in May.[5] Through a vote of his peers on the supreme court, he was elected chief justice in November 2020 and began serving in that capacity on January 1, 2021.[9]
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^ abcd"Hon. G. Richard Bevan". Idaho Supreme Court. Idaho Judicial Branch. 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2017.