Bar names 2006 Distinguished Lawyers 

Each year, the Idaho State Bar presents an award to one or more attorneys who have brought distinction to the profession through exemplary conduct and years of dedicated service to the citizens of Idaho.
The distinguished lawyers for 2006 are: Chief Judge B. Lynn Winmill, United States Ninth District Court, Boise; and William F. “Bud” Yost, Nampa. The awards were presented July 21 at the Idaho State Bar’s 2006 Annual Meeting in Sun Valley.
Yost attended Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, earning a master’s degree in governmental administration. In 1963, while in the Air Force, he was stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base. He was a captain when he was honorably discharged in 1966.
He was accepted at the University of Idaho College of Law and received his law degree in 1969. He has been a member of the Idaho State Bar for 36 years.
Yost said the opportunity to solve problems for people was a motivator in his decision to pursue a career in law.
Winmill originally decided to pursue a career as a physician and was accepted to Idaho State University, where he planned to major in medicine.
It was while doing research for an English paper about Clarence Darrow that he started to look more closely at the legal profession and the critical role lawyers sometimes play in changing and improving society. He then changed his major to pre-law.
He was student body president at ISU and graduated with high honors before pursuing his law degree at Harvard University.
He has had many professional accomplishments, including being appointed a federal judge. Being appointed a state court district judge by then-governor Cecil Andrus in 1987 gave him the most pleasure, he said.

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