Keith M. Callow

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.[1] Callow was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge, for which he received a Purple Heart.[1][2] He thereafter received a B.A. from the University of Washington, followed by a law degree from the same institution.[1] 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.[2]

On July 5, 1969, Governor Daniel J. Evans appointed Callow to a seat on the King County Superior Court.[3] Callow thereafter served for a period on the Washington Court of Appeals until 1985,[4] when Callow was elected to a seat on the state supreme court that was to be vacated by the retirement of Hugh J. Rosellini.[5] 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.[1]

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.[1]

Callow died in Seattle at the age of 83, from complications of diabetes and a kidney failure that had inflicted him since 2006.[1]