Join the League of Women Voters Moscow for a Speaker Series presentation: The Rule of Law in Hyper-Partisan Times: Challenges to Judicial Independence and Impartiality in America presented by Donald L. Burnett, Jr. on Wed., Feb. 25 at 12 p.m. in the 1912 Center Lecompte Auditorium.

Don Burnett’s career has encompassed service as an interim university president, dean of two law schools, appellate judge, state bar president, Army JAG officer, practicing lawyer, and law teacher. A native of Pocatello, Don received his baccalaureate degree
magna cum laude at Harvard, his J.D. (law) degree at the University of Chicago, and his LL.M. (Master of Laws) degree from the University of Virginia. He also graduated on the “Commandant’s List” of the U.S. Army Command Camp; General Staff College. As a reserve officer in the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Don’s assignments included service as the reserve deputy commandant and academic director of The Judge Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville, Virginia. He retired as a Colonel and received the U.S. Armed Forces Legion of Merit award. In retirement he remains an active speaker in programs of continuing legal education, judicial education, and civic education emphasizing ethics, the rule of law, and the role of an independent, impartial judiciary in America’s constitutional republic.