Keith M. Callow

{{Short description|American judge (1925–2008)}} {{infobox officeholder |name=Keith M. Callow |office=Justice of the Washington Supreme Court |term_start=1985 |term_end=1991 |predecessor=Hugh J. Rosellini |successor=Charles W. Johnson |birth_name=Keith McLean Callow |birth_date={{birth date|1925|1|11}} |birth_place=Seattle, Washington, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|2008|4|4|1925|1|11}} |death_place=Seattle, Washington, U.S. |spouse=Evelyn Case |children=3 |education=Lower Merion High School<br>University of Washington (BA) |profession=Lawyer, judge |allegiance=United States |branch=United States Army |battles={{tree list}} *World War II **Battle of the Bulge {{tree list/end}} |mawards=Purple Heart }} '''Keith McLean Callow''' (January 11, 1925 – April 4, 2008) was a justice of the Washington Supreme Court from 1985 to 1991.

==Early life, education, military service, and career== Born in Seattle, Washington, Callow graduated from Lower Merion High School in 1943, and was drafted into the United States Army during World War II.<ref name="Obit">{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=keith-mclean-callow&pid=107477829 |title=Keith McLean Callow|publisher=The Seattle Times|date=April 14, 2008}}</ref> Callow was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge, for which he received a Purple Heart.<ref name="Obit"/><ref name="History">"4 new justices make history on high court", ''Spokane Chronicle'' (January 14, 1985), p. 3.</ref> He thereafter received a B.A. from the University of Washington, followed by a law degree from the same institution.<ref name="Obit"/> He was a law clerk to Justice Matthew W. Hill, and a trial lawyer, practicing law for seventeen years, including as an assistant attorney general, before serving as a judge in Washington state courts for fifteen years.<ref name="History"/>

==Judicial service== On July 5, 1969, Governor Daniel J. Evans appointed Callow to a seat on the King County Superior Court.<ref>"Evans Names New Judges", ''The Spokesman-Review'' (July 8, 1969), p. 13.</ref> Callow thereafter served for a period on the Washington Court of Appeals until 1985,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.courts.wa.gov/appellate_trial_courts/coa50/index.cfm?fa=home.COAKeithCallow|title=Judge Keith Callow|publisher=Washington Courts|access-date=June 10, 2020}}</ref> when Callow was elected to a seat on the state supreme court that was to be vacated by the retirement of Hugh J. Rosellini.<ref>"Hugh Rosellini, state's senior justice, dies", ''Spokane Chronicle'' (November 27, 1984), p. 14.</ref> In 1990, Callow lost a bid for another term on the court, and thereafter worked for the United States Department of State, assisting attorneys and judges in Estonia and Kyrgyzstan with the establishment of post-Soviet legal systems.<ref name="Obit"/>

==Personal life and death== While attending the University of Washington, Callow met and married Evelyn Case, to whom he was married for 58 years, until her death. They had three children.<ref name="Obit"/>

Callow died in Seattle at the age of 83, from complications of diabetes and a kidney failure that had inflicted him since 2006.<ref name="Obit"/>

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