Judge Mark S. Kouris was appointed to the Third District Court serving Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties in April 2006 by Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. Judge Kouris received a Bachelors Degree in Accounting and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Utah. He worked in management for Procter & Gamble before starting and managing a packaging and shipping company. After selling the company, Judge Kouris received his law degree from the University of Utah in 1993. He then worked as an Assistant Utah Attorney General before becoming a prosecutor for the Salt Lake County District Attorneys Office. Judge Kouris then joined the Utah Federal Defenders Office working exclusively in the Federal Court System before his appointment to the bench. While on the bench, Judge Kouris has operated a Felony Drug Court from 2006 - 2015. He served on the Board of District Court Judges from 2011 - 2017, where the last year he served as chair. Judge Kouris has served as the Associate Presiding Judge of the Third District from June 2017 to June 2019. He then became the Presiding Judge for the Third District from June 2019 to the present. He has served on the Advisory Board of the Salt Lake Family Justice Center from 2015 to the present. Judge Kouris is also an adjunct professor at the University of Utah College of Law and Salt Lake Community College. 4/20 

Judge Laura S. Scott was appointed to the Third District Court in October 2014 by Governor Gary R. Herbert. She took the bench in January 2015 and serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Scott received a Bachelor degree, cum laude, from the University of Utah in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. She graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctor degree from the Sandra Day OConnor College of Law at Arizona State University in 1993. After graduation, she served as Assistant General Counsel for the University of Utah from 1993 to 1997. She then joined the law firm of Parsons Behle & Latimer, where she maintained a commercial and real estate litigation practice, including trial and appellate work. She served on the firms board of directors from 2010 until her appointment to the bench. Judge Scott is an American Bar Foundation Fellow, a former vice chair of the Ethics and Discipline Committee of the Utah Supreme Court, and a past president of the Salt Lake County Bar Association. She received the Utah State Bars Professionalism Award in 2014. Prior to her appointment, she served on the boards of Salt Lake Valley Habitat for Humanity and the University of Utah Crimson Club. 2/16 

Matthew Bates was appointed to the Utah Third District Court by Governor Gary R. Herbert in July 2016. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Prior to his appointment, Judge Bates served as the Chief Prosecutor in the Summit County Attorney's Office. He previously worked for the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office and in the Litigation and Criminal Appeals Divisions of the Utah Attorney General's Office. Judge Bates graduated cum laude with a juris doctorate from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 2003. 3-17 

Judge James T. Blanch was appointed to the Third District Court in August 2012 by Governor Gary Herbert. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Blanch received a bachelor's degree with high distinction from the University of Virginia in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated cum laude with a juris doctorate degree from Harvard Law School in 1993. From 1993 until his appointment to the bench, Judge Blanch practiced law at the Salt Lake City firm of Parsons Behle & Latimer, maintaining a broad civil litigation practice, including both trial and appellate work. He has worked as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law and is a past president of both the Salt Lake County Bar Association and the David K. Watkiss-Sutherland II American Inn of Court. Judge Blanch has been a member of the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure since 1999 and is one of the initial members of the Utah Pro Bono Commission. 8/12 

Judge Heather Brereton was appointed to the Third District Court in August 2015 by Governor Gary Herbert. She serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Brereton received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Utah in 1995 and a law degree from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in 1998. After law school, Judge Brereton served as a judicial law clerk at the trial court level in the Fourth District Court and at the Utah Court of Appeals. Prior to her judicial appointment, Judge Brereton was a trial attorney, a capital qualified attorney, and the misdemeanor division chief for Salt Lake Legal Defender's Association. Judge Brereton is located in the West Jordan Courthouse and also presides in Salt Lake City over one of two Mental Health Courts in the Third District. 3/18 

Judge Su J. Chon was appointed to the Third District Court in August 2012 by Governor Gary R. Herbert. She serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelors of Arts in English in 1991 and a Juris Doctorate in 1994. Judge Chon has worked in small and medium law firms and at the time of her appointment served as a Property Rights Ombudsman for the State of Utah. Judge Chon received the Utah State Bar's 2005 Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year Award and the 2008 Raymond S. Uno Award. She is a member of the American Bar Association and National Association of Women Judges. She serves on the Court's Language Access and Community Relations committees, and is the co-chair of the Utah Bar's Modest Means Committee. 11/15 

Judge Patrick W. Corum was appointed to the Third District Court in November of 2017 by Governor Gary R. Herbert. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Toole Counties. Judge Corum graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from Oregon State University in 1993. After a brief career as a chemist, he graduated from the University of Utah College Of Law in 2001, where he was admitted to the Order of the Coif and served as an editor of the Utah Law Review. From graduation to the day he was appointed, Judge Corum worked at the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association where he served as a trial attorney, Misdemeanor Chief, and Assistant Director over the course of his career. He was also an Adjunct Professor at the S.J. Quinney College of Law teaching Criminal Process and for many years, co-managed a legal clinic for the homeless of Salt Lake County. Judge Corum has served on the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure as both a member and the Chair and is a member of the Uniform Fine and Bail Committee. 1/20 

Judge Robert P. Faust was appointed to the Third District Court in January 2007 by Gov. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Faust received a law degree from the J. Reuben Clark College of Law at Brigham Young University in 1982. After graduation, Judge Faust joined the law firm of Nielsen & Senior as an associate and shareholder where he had a diverse litigation practice until 1996. At that time he established a solo practice and became counsel for the United States Postal Service. In 1999, Judge Faust became a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Utah. He was also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and has served on the Utah Supreme Court Ethics & Discipline Committee and Utah Supreme Court Task Force on Bar Governance Issues. Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Faust served as president of the Federal Bar Association and has been a member of the Federal Bar Association National Council and Federal Bar Foundation; American Trial Lawyers Association; American Bar Association Litigation, Real Property and Estate Planning Sections, and of the Utah State Bar Litigation Section, Courts and Judges Committee, Natural Resources Section, Real Property Section, Continuing Legal Education Committee and Mid-Year Meeting Committee. Judge Faust has also served on the Advisory Board for Foster Care, Division of Family Services, and as Judge Pro Tempore, Third Judicial Circuit Court of Salt Lake County. 12/06 

Judge James D. Gardner was appointed to the Third District Court in December 2014 by Governor Gary Herbert. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Gardner graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1997. He then graduated cum laude with a juris doctorate degree from Duke University School of Law in 2000. Prior to his judicial appointment, Judge Gardner was a partner at Snell & Wilmer in its Salt Lake City office, where he maintained a broad-based civil litigation practice in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. Judge Gardner was admitted to practice before the Fourth, Sixth, Tenth and Federal Circuits, the United States Supreme Court, and all state and federal courts in Utah. Judge Gardner is a member of the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct, the New Lawyer Training Program Committee, and the A. Sherman Christensen Inn of Court. Judge Gardner is located in the West Jordan Courthouse.4/18 

Judge Dianna M. Gibson was appointed to the Third District Court in October 2018 by Governor Gary R. Herbert. She took the bench in January 2019 and serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Gibson received her bachelor\'s degrees in psychology and communication from the University of Utah in 1992 and 1993, and received her Juris Doctor degree from the S.J. Quinney College of Law in 1996. After graduation, Judge Gibson served as a law clerk at the Utah Court of Appeals. She then joined the law firm of Parsons Behle & Latimer, where she maintained a general litigation practice, including trial and appellate work, in state and federal court and in international arbitration. Judge Gibson also worked in-house, at two publicly traded companies, holding various in-house legal and business positions, including general counsel and deputy general counsel. Judge Gibson is an American Bar Foundation Fellow. She currently serves on the S.J. Quinney School of Law Board of Trustees, the Outreach Committee for the International Association of Women Judges and the Tooele County Human Services Advisory Committee. Judge Gibson is currently located in the Tooele County courthouse. 

Judge L. Douglas Hogan was appointed to the Third District Court in October 2014 by Gov. Gary Herbert. He serves Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties. Judge Hogan received a juris doctorate with distinction from the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific in 1999. Judge Hogan's undergraduate studies were completed at the University of Utah in 1996. After completing law school, Judge Hogan worked as in-house counsel for SK Hart Management in Salt Lake City. Judge Hogan left SK Hart Management in October of 2000 and opened the Law Office of L. Douglas Hogan, P.C. in Tooele where he performed a wide variety of legal services, including criminal defense, divorce, adoption, probate, contracts and landlord/tenant law. His private practice included serving as a public defender for Tooele County from 2001 to 2006. As part of his Tooele County public defender contract, he served as the assigned counsel for indigent participants in the Tooele Drug Court program. During this time, Judge Hogan also worked for a year as conflict counsel for the Salt Lake Legal Defenders Association. In 2006, he was elected to the office of Tooele County Attorney. Judge Hogan served as the Tooele County Attorney for eight years and held that office until taking the bench in December 2014. 3/15 

Judge Kent Robert Holmberg was appointed to the Third District Court by Governor Gary R. Herbert in December 2016. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Holmberg earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee and a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law. He has spent his legal career as a civil law practitioner. Previous to his appointment by Governor Herbert, Judge Holmberg served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Utah in the Litigation Division, where he was the Torts Section Director. In addition to his law practice, Judge Holmberg taught criminal justice college courses and was a certified public accountant. Judge Holmberg currently serves on the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure, the Model Utah Civil Jury Instructions Committee, the Board of District Court Judges and as a Tax Court Judge. 1/22\r\n 

Judge Elizabeth A. Hruby-Mills was appointed to the Third District Court in August 2011 by Governor Gary Herbert and took the bench in December 2011. She serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Hruby-Mills received a juris doctorate from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah in 1993. She graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1984 and earned a master's degree in counseling from the University of Vermont in 1986. Judge Hruby-Mills worked as an emergency services social worker and counselor for children before attending law school. She was a partner at the law firm of Richard Brandt Miller Nelson in Salt Lake City where she practiced from 1993 through 2011. Judge Hruby-Mills served in leadership roles on the Legal Aid Board, "And Justice for All,"" as well as other numerous community and legal boards and committees. 1/12 

Judge Kristine E. Johnson was appointed to the Third District Court by Governor Gary R. Herbert in October 2019. She serves Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties. Judge Johnson received a B.A. in Political Science and U.S. History from Trinity University in 1992 and a Juris Doctor from the S.J. Quinney College of Law in 1995. Prior to her appointment, she was a shareholder at the Salt Lake City firm of Parsons Behle & Latimer where she served as a member of the Board of Directors from 2015 until her appointment to the bench. She is a founding member and former president of the David K. Winder Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, and a member of the David K. Watkiss-Sutherland II American Inn of Court. She serves on the Utah State Bar Continuing Legal Education Steering Committee and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. 3/21  

Judge Linda M. Jones was appointed in October 2017 by Governor Gary Herbert to the Third Judicial District Court, serving Salt Lake, Tooele, and Summit Counties. Before her appointment, she was a founding partner of Zimmerman Jones Booher, LLC, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law teaching appellate advocacy. She graduated from the S.J. Quinney College of Law in 1989, where she was a William H. Leary Scholar and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Contemporary Law. Following law school, Judge Jones was in private practice with the Salt Lake law firm of Anderson & Karrenberg, and in 1995, she joined the appellate division of the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association. She has served on several Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committees, including the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence, the Advisory Committee on the Model Criminal Jury Instructions, and the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professionalism. In addition, she served on the Utah Task Force for Indigent Defense and on the Utah Appellate Court Nominating Commission. She is a recipient of the Utah State Bar Professionalism Award, has served as president of the board for Salt Lake Valley Habitat for Humanity, and is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. 1/19 

Judge Keith A. Kelly was appointed to the Third District Court in November 2009 by Gov. Gary R. Herbert. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Kelly graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in 1981 and with a master's degree in 1982, both in economics from Brigham Young University. He then received a juris doctorate degree from Stanford Law School in 1985, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Monroe G. McKay, U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Kelly practiced law at the firm of Ray Quinney & Nebeker for 23 years. He served as chairperson of the Utah Judicial Council's Oversight Committee for the Office of the Guardian Ad Litem, and for 19 years as a member of the Utah Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence. He formerly served as president of the Utah State Bar's Young Lawyers Division and as chair of the Bars Delivery of Legal Services Committee. Judge Kelly has served as chair of the boards of trustees of the Utah Parent Center, "And Justice for All," and the Disability Law Center. He has served as president of the Aldon J. Anderson American Inn of Court and as a member of the Utah State Advisory Board on Children's Justice. Judge Kelly is currently serving as the supervising tax judge for Utah, along with managing his criminal and civil docket. 11/17 

Judge William K. Kendall was appointed to the Third District Court in December 2014 by Governor Gary Herbert. He serves Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties. Judge Kendall received dual bachelor's degrees in political science and communication from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1993. He graduated with a juris doctorate from the University of Richmond, Virginia in 1996 where he was the executive editor on the founding editorial board of the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology. Prior to his judicial appointment, he worked as an assistant U.S. attorney and the deputy violent crimes section chief at the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Utah where he received the U.S. Attorney's Award and the People's Choice Award. At the U.S. Attorney's Office he served as both the anti-gang and robbery coordinator and prosecuted federal racketeering, robbery, firearm, narcotics, and child pornography cases. Prior to this, he served as a deputy district attorney for Salt Lake County where worked as a trial attorney prosecuting all types of state criminal cases. 2/18  

Judge Chelsea Koch was appointed to the Third District Court in September 2019 by Governor Gary R. Herbert. She serves Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties. Prior to her appointment, Judge Koch practiced criminal defense independently and with the law firm of Yengich & Xaiz, where she represented those charged with state and federal crimes. Judge Koch began her legal career at the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association as a trial attorney. She then transitioned to a position at the Utah Federal Defender office, where she represented those charged with federal crimes in the District of Utah. Once Judge Koch left public service for private practice, she continued to provide indigent defense by serving as a public defender for Tooele County for several years, and serving on the Criminal Justice Act panel for the District of Utah until her appointment to the bench. Judge Koch served as a member of the federal court's mentor program, formerly served on the attorney misconduct committee for the federal court, and was a former president of the Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Judge Koch received a juris doctorate from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in 2000. Judge Koch is currently located in the West Jordan Courthouse.  

Judge Barry G. Lawrence was appointed to the Third District Court in September 2012 by Governor Gary Herbert. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Lawrence graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology in 1984. He earned his Juris Doctorate degree from Syracuse University College of Law in 1988, where he graduated Cum Laude. Upon graduating from law school, Judge Lawrence relocated to Utah and worked for 12 years at the law firm of Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough, where he had a commercial litigation practice and served on the firm's board of directors. In 2000, he joined the Utah Attorney General's Office and worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Litigation Division. While there he practiced in the Torts Section and served as the Torts Section Chief until his appointment to the bench. 12/12 

Judge Richard D. McKelvie was appointed to the Third District Court in April 2014 by Governor Gary Herbert. He serves Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties. Judge McKelvie graduated from Weber State College in June 1978, and from the University of Utah College of Law in 1981. Judge McKelvie became a Deputy Salt Lake County Attorney in October 1981, serving on trial teams specializing in narcotics, sex offenses, and habitual offenders. In February 1988, he became an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Utah, and Assistant Director of that office's Statewide Prosecution and Illegal Narcotics Enforcement. He became an Assistant United States Attorney in April 1990. In that capacity he prosecuted federal drug offenses, violent crimes and criminal gangs, and cases involving trafficking in stolen cultural artifacts. Judge McKelvie is director of the Trial Advocacy Program at the S.J. Quinney University of Utah College of Law, a position he has held since 2008. He was awarded the law school's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2011. 8/14 

Judge Amber M. Mettler was appointed to the Third District Court in November 2017 by Governor Gary Herbert. She serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Mettler graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1999. She then graduated magna cum laude with a juris doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2004. Prior to her judicial appointment, Judge Mettler was a partner at Snell & Wilmer in its Salt Lake City office, where she practiced civil and appellate litigation in state and federal courts. Judge Mettler was admitted to practice before the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, the United States Supreme Court, and all state and federal courts in Utah. Judge Mettler is a member of the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure and the Licensed Paralegal Practitioner Committee. Judge Mettler is located in the Matheson Courthouse. 5/22 

Commissioner Russell Minas was appointed as a Third District Court Commissioner in October 2018. He received a juris doctorate in 1989 from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Prior to his appointment he provided comprehensive family law services in Utah for 29 years. He is a past executive director and past trustee of the Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake. He is a longtime member and past chair of the Executive Committee of the Utah State Bar's Family Law Section. He serves on the Utah Judicial Council's Standing Committee on Children and Family Law and on its Court Forms Committee. He currently co-chairs the Utah Child Support Guidelines Advisory Committee. Commissioner Minas is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He is a past recipient of the Utah State Bar Family Law Attorney of the Year. Prior to his appointment he achieved Master Mediator status on the Utah Court Roster of Qualified Divorce Mediators. He is also a past chair of the Association of Collaborative Professionals of Utah and is a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. 8/21 

Judge Adam T. Mow was appointed to the Third District Court in January 2018 by Governor Gary R. Herbert. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Mow graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Architecture from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana in 1999. He obtained a Juris Doctor from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah in 2005, where he was a William H. Leary Scholar and the Executive Editor of the Utah Law Review. After graduating from law school, Judge Mow was an attorney at the law firm of Babcock Scott & Babcock until 2011. From 2011 to his judicial appointment, Judge Mow was a shareholder at Jones Waldo Holbrook & McDonough, where he also served on its Board of Directors. He is a former architect and a past president of the Utah Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Judge Mow is an experienced arbitrator and mediator. He received Utah Dispute Resolution's mediator of the year award and he served on its Board of Trustees. He is also a past chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the Utah State Bar. 7/18 

Judge Richard E. Mrazik was appointed to the Third District Court in April 2018 by Governor Gary R. Herbert. He took the bench in June 2018 and serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Mrazik received a Bachelor's Degree in sociology and biology from Bowdoin College in 1999. After serving as an Americorps member at the Fourth Street Clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah, he received his law degree from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah in 2005. Prior to joining the bench, Judge Mrazik was a shareholder in the litigation department of Parsons Behle & Latimer. He served on the board of directors of the Utah Bar Foundation from 2013 to 2019. Judge Mrazik currently serves on the Utah Judicial Council's Standing Committee on Resources for Self-Represented Parties and on the board of directors of the Utah Avalanche Center. 10/19 

Judge Amy J. Oliver was appointed to the Third District Court in June 2021 by Governor Spencer J. Cox. She took the bench in August 2021 and serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Oliver received a bachelors degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Utah in 1995. After graduation, she worked for the Utah Supreme Court Law Library. Judge Oliver graduated cum laude with a juris doctorate degree from Harvard Law School in 2000. She spent the first part of her legal career in private practice with law firms in Washington, D.C. and Phoenix, Arizona. She then entered government service, first with the U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Utah and then with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to her appointment, she was the Assistant Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissions Salt Lake Regional Office. Judge Oliver worked as an Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University Law School teaching legal research and writing. She currently serves on the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct. 10/21 

Judge Paul B. Parker was appointed to the Third District Court in July 2013 by Governor Gary Herbert. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Parker served as a police officer for the Vernal City Police Department from 1978 to 1985. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Police Science from Weber State University in 1985 and a law degree from the University of Utah in 1988. Judge Parker worked as a deputy Salt Lake County District Attorney from 1989 until his appointment to the bench. The majority of Judge Parker's career was spent as a trial attorney prosecuting felony crimes, including child abuse, sexual assault, and homicide. 10/13 

Judge Kara L. Pettit was appointed to the Third District Court in September 2014 by Governor Gary R. Herbert. She currently serves full time in Salt Lake County. She is a member of the Judicial Council and also serves on the Grand Jury Panel. Judge Pettit is also a member of the Utah Bar's New Lawyer Training Program Committee and is on the Bar's subcommittee responsible for preparing the questions for the landlord/tenant portion of the Bar's licensed paralegal practitioner examination. Judge Pettit graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from the University of Northern Iowa, magna cum laude, in 1988. From 1988-1992 she was an internal auditor for 3M Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. She obtained her law degree from the University of Utah's College of Law in 1995. From 1995-1999, she was a deputy prosecuting attorney for the Ada County Prosecuting Attorney's Office in Boise, Idaho, serving in various capacities, including the misdemeanor, juvenile, child protection, and felony divisions. In December 1999, she joined the law firm of Snow, Christensen & Martineau, where she practiced civil litigation until being appointed to the bench in 2014. Prior to her appointment on the bench, Judge Pettit volunteered with several organizations or projects over the years, including the Ada County Human Rights Task Force, pro bono Guardian Ad Litem program, pro bono Legal Clinic at Guadelupe School, and The Road Home Development Committee. 1/19 

Judge Todd Shaughnessy was appointed to the Third District Court in 2011 by Governor Gary Herbert. Judge Shaughnessy graduated from the University of Utah College of Law, clerked for the Utah Supreme Court, and was a partner at Snell & Wilmer in Salt Lake City, prior to his appointment. Judge Shaughnessy is a member of the Utah Judicial Council, the governing body for Utahs judiciary, and a member of the Utah Judicial Conduct Commission. Judge Shaughnessy received the Judicial Excellence Award from the Utah State Bars Litigation Section in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. He is a fellow in the American Bar Foundation, a member of the American and Utah State Bar associations, past president of the Salt Lake County Bar Association, and a Master of the Bench in the David K. Watkiss Sutherland Inn of Court. 5/20 

Judge Randall N. Skanchy was appointed to the Third District Court in January 2001 by Gov. Michael O. Leavitt. He serves the Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. He received a law degree from Brigham Young University in 1980. At the time of his appointment to the bench, Judge Skanchy was with the law firm of Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough. He has 21 years of trial experience as counsel in civil and environmental matters in state and federal courts. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Skanchy served as an arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers and handled environmental state and federal superfund matters throughout the western United States. He served as chair of the Utah Food Bank from 1996 to 1999, and as a member of the Community Services Council from 1996 to 2000. He serves as an adjunct professor for the John B. Goddard School of Business and Economics at Weber State University. Judge Skanchy served as a member of the Utah Judicial Councils Ethics Advisory Committee, the Board of District Court Judges, the Judicial Council, and chaired the Courts Community Outreach Subcommittee. He was the founding judge of the Tooele County Felony Drug Court in 2004 and has served as a judge of the Salt Lake County Felony Drug Court since 2006. He has also served as an Associate Presiding and Presiding Judge of the Third District Court. Judge Skanchy is located in the Scott M. Matheson Courthouse and assigned to a Criminal and Civil calendar. 11/21 

Judge Andrew Stone was appointed to the Third District Court in October 2010 by Governor Gary Herbert. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Stone graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Mathematics. He was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi upon graduating. In 1986, he graduated from the University of Utah Law School and was admitted to the Order of the Coif. He was a member of the Utah Law Review. Upon graduation he clerked for Judge Bruce S. Jenkins, who at the time was Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Utah. After his clerkship, he worked as a trial attorney from 1987 through 1989 for the U. S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C. In 1990, he returned to Utah and worked for the law firm of Jones, Waldo, Holbrook, and McDonough, where he served on its Board and Executive Committee, until his appointment to the bench. While working at the law firm, Judge Stone received an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, was recognized by Best Lawyers in America in the field of Antitrust Law, and by Super Lawyers and Utah's Legal Elite in Business Litigation. Judge Stone was admitted to practice before the Tenth, Ninth, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits and the United States Court of Federal Claims, as well as all state and federal courts in Utah.2/11 

Judge Vernice S. Trease was appointed to the Third District Court in November 2006 by Gov. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. She serves Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties. Judge Trease graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Lewis and Clark College and received a law degree from the University Of Utah College Of Law in 1988. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Trease served the community of Salt Lake County as a trial attorney, capital qualified attorney, and assistant director with the Salt Lake Legal Defender Assoc. Judge Trease has served on several committees including the Utah Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in Criminal and Juvenile Justice System, and the State of Utah Office on Domestic and Sexual Violence Domestic Violence Justice Planning Group, Judicial Council's Fine and Bail Schedule Standing Committee, Supreme Courts Indigent Criminal Defense Task Force and as chairperson of the Judicial Councils Court Interpreter Standing Committee. She is currently a member of the Supreme Courts Advisory Committees on the Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Rules of Evidence, Utah Center for Legal Inclusion, Utah Sentencing Commission, and Utah Substance Use and Mental Health Advisory Council. Judge Trease is the recipient of several awards including the Women Lawyers of Utah Woman Lawyer of the Year, the Women Lawyers of Utah Mentor Award given and the Utah Minority Bar Association Community Service Award. Judge Trease also presides over one of two Mental Health Courts in the Third District.2/17 

Judge Teresa L. Welch was appointed to the Third District Court in October 2019 by Governor Gary R. Herbert. She serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Welch received four degrees from the University of Utah, including a Bachelor's Degree in Music (Violin Performance), a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy, a Master's Degree in Philosophy, and a Juris Doctorate (in 2002) from the S.J. Quinney College of Law. She also received a PhD in Criminal Justice (in 2018) from Nova Southeastern University, graduating Phi Kappa Phi. Before Judge Welch's appointment to the bench, she worked for the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association for 16 plus years. There, she worked as a trial and appellate attorney, and she also supervised a team of attorneys in the Third District Court's Early Case Resolution Court Program from 2011-2015. She has also taught criminal justice and philosophy classes as an adjunct professor for local universities and colleges, including the University of Utah, Weber State University, and the Salt Lake Community College. Judge Welch currently serves on the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence. She is also the managing editor for the Utah Journal of Criminal Law, and is a member of the David K. Watkiss-Sutherland II American Inn of Court. 2/21