Scott, an environmental advocate, died May 2, 2015, at his home in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. A colleague described him as “the kind of lawyer every lawyer should aspire to be.”
Scott graduated from Klamath (Ore.) High School. At Princeton, he was a history major, commissioned in ROTC, and belonged to Campus Club. His father was a member of the Class of 1916.
Scott’s law studies at Stanford were interrupted when he was called up by the Army as an artillery lieutenant. Completing his law degree in 1955, Scott moved to Coeur d’Alene with his wife, Mary Lou, whom he had married in 1953. There, for almost 60 years, he was a solo lawyer, primarily handling business, property, and civil matters.
Though he described environmental law as an “avocation,” this was where Scott left a lasting mark. He successfully led fights to protect an urban-forested area, to assure public use of a city beach, and to preserve a historic downtown threatened by a proposed interstate.
Along with Mary Lou, a former state senator, he was inducted into the Idaho Hall of Fame and received the Idaho State Bar’s Distinguished Lawyer Award. Boards he served on included Idaho Water Resources, the National Audubon Society, and the Idaho Nature Conservancy.
Our condolences go to Mary Lou, his children Tara and Bruce ’82, and four grandchildren.