Idaho Court Reporters Association

To Idaho Court Reporters:

The Oral History Project of the Idaho Legal History Society is committed to interviewing, transcribing, and filing 30 interviews of prominent lawyers and judges in Idaho in the calendar year 2008.  More than a dozen interviewers are poised to contact one or two lawyers over the next few weeks to schedule one to two hour interviews. A major concern is having advanced volunteer help to transcribe the interviews and prepare them for filing in the Idaho Legal History Society archives and at the Idaho State Historical Society.

The incredibly valuable help from the Idaho Court Reporters in this important project is greatly appreciated.  Those court reporters who volunteer contribute immeasurably to the project by recording and transcribing attorneys’ and judges’ personal stories about their careers and lives.  They also have the enjoyment of hearing and reading many of the colorful stories that will illustrate the significant lives of the storytellers.We are proceeding  with some dispatch on the interviews statewide so that more of Idaho’s rich legal history is not lost as lawyers age, forget some details in their personal histories, or worse.If you are willing to participate, please notify oral history committee member Dianne Cromwell: 

dcromwell@cableone.net , or one of the regional court reporter-coordinators (Sandy Beebe in judicial districts 6 and 7–sbeebe@cableone.net) .   Dianne has participated in several oral history interviews and completed the written transcriptions.  Court reporters Lisa Yant and Sue Wolf have also contributed to this project.  They can tell you what is involved, and the enjoyable experience they had.Your professional help with the legal history society’s oral history project will be greatly appreciated.  Thank you for your support.

Rita Ryan, chair
Oral History Project,
Idaho Legal History Society
February 14, 2008

Please contact Dianne Cromwell at (208)345-3704 or dcromwell@cableone.net to participate.