Joel David Horton (born October 30, 1959) is an American lawyer and retired judge from Idaho.
Horton then attended the University of Idaho in Moscow and received his J.D.
[1] A district judge in Boise, Horton was appointed to the state's highest court eighteen years ago by Governor Butch Otter in September 2007 to fill the vacancy of the retiring Linda Copple Trout.
[3][5] He narrowly retained his seat in the statewide election (50.1%) in May 2008,[6][7][8] but was re-elected by a wide margin (65.8%) six years later in 2014.
[12] His successor, Gregory Moeller, was appointed by Otter and was unopposed in the 2020 election.