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