Linda Jayne Copple Trout (born September 1, 1951) is an American lawyer and retired judge from Idaho.
She is a former chief justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, the only female to hold that position.
[1] Appointed by Governor Cecil Andrus as an associate justice in 1992,[2][3] she was the first of four women to serve on the court.
She attended the University of Idaho in Moscow, and was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.
[10][11] Trout passed the bar in Idaho in 1977 and was in private practice in Lewiston for six years.