{{Short description|American judge (1868–1951)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}} '''Llewellyn Link Callaway''' (December 15, 1868 – August 6, 1951)<ref name="BHMJJC">{{cite web|url=https://courts.mt.gov/external/library/docs/judgesbio2.pdf |title=Biographies and Histories of Montana's Justices, Judges, and Courts, 1865-2020|publisher=State Law Library of Montana|date=2020|quote=This work in is in the public domain, reproduction and non-commercial distribution of this work are permitted with attribution.|pages=21–22}}</ref><ref name="Commission">"[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-anaconda-standard-supreme-court-comm/132552850/ Supreme Court Commission Is Named By The Justices]", ''The Anaconda Standard'' (March 8, 1903), p. 3.</ref> was chief justice of the [[Montana Supreme Court]] from 1922 to 1935.
==Early life, education, and career== Born in [[Tuscola, Illinois]], Callaway moved with his family to [[Virginia City, Montana|Virginia City, Montana Territory]], in March 1871, his father, [[James E. Callaway]], having been appointed Secretary of the Territory of Montana by President [[Ulysses S. Grant]]. Callaway was sent to attend West Rugby Academy and Hamilton Preparatory School in Philadelphia from 1884 to 1885. In the fall of 1886, he entered the [[University of Michigan]], but a devastating winter forced him to return to [[Madison County, Montana|Madison County]] to help his father's ranch. Callaway returned to the University of Michigan in the fall of 1889 and received his [[Bachelor of Laws|LL.B.]] in 1891.<ref name="BHMJJC"/>
Callaway returned to Montana to practice law in [[White Sulphur Springs, Montana]], from 1891 to 1894, when he moved back to Virginia City. He was elected as Madison County Attorney "by a large majority", serving from 1894 to 1898.<ref name="Commission"/> He was elected Mayor of Virginia City in 1900, serving for three terms. He became well regarded as a specialist in Montana [[water rights]] litigation.<ref name="BHMJJC"/>
==Judicial service== In 1903, Callaway was chosen by the justices of the state to join the Montana Supreme Court Commission,<ref name="Commission"/> and in 1904, he was elected District Judge for the 5th Judicial District and so resigned the Court Commission in 1905. He served as a district judge for the Montana Fifth Judicial District from 1905 to 1913. He was appointed to chair the [[Montana Conservation Commission]] from 1908 to 1909. Callaway next moved to [[Great Falls, Montana]], in 1913. In 1922, he was appointed by Governor [[Joseph M. Dixon]] to become the next chief justice of the Montana Supreme Court after the death of Chief Justice Brantly, served thereafter until his retirement in 1935.<ref name="BHMJJC"/>
==Personal life and death== On December 12, 1894, Callaway married Ellen N. Badger, with whom he had two sons and three daughters.<ref name="BHMJJC"/>
Callaway died on in Helena, Montana, at the age of 83.<ref name="BHMJJC"/>
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