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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Beth Baker (born 1961) is an American lawyer who has served an associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court.[1] Elected on November 2, 2010 and sworn into office on January 3, 2011, she became the fourth woman to serve on Montana's highest bench.[2] She took the seat of the retired Justice W. William Leaphart.[2] Originally from Spokane, Washington, she graduated magna cum laude in 1982 from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in Speech Communication.[1] Baker received her law degree, with high honors, from the University of Montana School of Law in 1985.[1]

Baker clerked for Judge Charles C. Lovell of the United States District Court for the District of Montana, from 1985 to 1989.[1][3] For 11 years, from 1989 to 2000, she was an Assistant Attorney General with the Montana Department of Justice.[3][1] During this time she served four years as Assistant Chief Deputy Attorney General and four years as Chief Deputy Attorney General.[1][3] She left state government to do private practice at the Helena, Montana law firm of Hughes, Kellner, Sullivan and Alke from 2000 to 2010.[1]

Baker has served for ten years on the Montana Supreme Court's Access to Justice Commission, currently as its chair.[1] She also serves as an ex officio director of the Montana Justice Foundation.[1] In 2006, she was awarded the State Bar of Montana's Professionalism Award.[4]

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