Dale David Goble was born 28 November 1947 in Boise, Idaho. He was part of the first graduating class from Capital High School. He attended Columbia College under the recruitment of Gideon Oppenheimer. He earned a degree from Columbia in philosophy. He moved to Eugene, Oregon in the early 1970s where he worked as an art teacher. Goble then worked for the Oregon welfare department and in 1975 he enrolled in the University of Oregon Law School. After graduation he opened a legal writing program, one of the first in the state. In 1976, he joined the U.S. Department of the Interior under Cecil Andrus of the Carter Administration. He left the Department of the Interior after receiving an appointment to the University of Idaho Law School. Dale Goble was a University of Idaho professor between 1987 and 2013. He specialized in tort, natural resource law, constitutional law, and natural resource history. He was married to Susan Kilgore. Goble died 14 April 2022 in Moscow, Idaho.