IDAHO SUPREME COURT JUSTICE LINDA COPPLE TROUT     Linda Copple Trout graduated in 1973 from the University of Idaho with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and in 1977 received a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Idaho College of Law. In 1999 she received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Albertson College of Idaho. Upon graduation from law school,  Justice Trout joined the Lewiston law firm of Blake, Feeney & Clark, where she was engaged in the private practice of law for six years.     In 1983, Justice Trout was appointed to the position of Magistrate Judge. From 1987 through 1991, she assumed additional responsibilities as the Acting Trial Court Administrator for the five counties included in the Second Judicial District. In 1990, she was elected a District Judge, and handled cases in Nez Perce and Clearwater Counties. In August of 1992, she was appointed by Governor Cecil Andrus to be the first woman justice on the Idaho Supreme Court.  She was elected by the Supreme Court to the position of Chief Justice for a four-year term beginning February 1, 1997, and was re-elected to a second term ending September 1, 2004.     Justice Trout is a member of the Idaho State Bar Association, and the American Inns of Court. She has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Lewiston City Library, the Northwest Children's Home, the Lewiston YWCA, plus a number of statewide administrative, judicial and bar committees, and has taught courses at the University of Idaho College of Law in family law.  Justice Trout currently chairs the Idaho Supreme Court's Judicial Education Committee.     United States Supreme Court Chief Justice, William H. Rehnquist, appointed Justice Trout to the Judicial Conference Committee on Federal and State Jurisdiction in 2001, for a three-year term, and she was reappointed for an additional three-year term in 2004.