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CHIEF JUSTICE CHRISTINE M. DURHAM |  | Chief Justice Christine Durham has been on the Utah Supreme Court since 1982, after serving as a trial judge for four years, one of them as presiding judge of the Third Judicial District Court. She became Chief Justice in April 2002. She received her A.B. with honors from Wellesley College and a J.D. from Duke University, where she is a member of the Board of Trustees. Chief Justice Durham has been active in judicial education, serving as the first chair of the Utah Judicial Councilīs Education Committee and a founder of the Leadership Institute in Judicial Education. Her work for Utahīs courts has included service on the Governorīs Task Force that recommended legislation to implement the 1985 amendments to the Judicial Article of the Utah Constitution, the Utah Judicial Council, the Commission on Justice in the 21st Century, and the Committee on Improving Jury Service, which she co-chaired. She was the first chair of the courtsī Public Outreach Committee, and leads the Coalition for Civic, Character, and Service Learning, which is a partnership between civic organizations, public education, the judicial branch, and the legal profession to improve education about the justice system in Utah public schools. She also served on the Utah Constitutional Revision Commission for 12 years. Nationally, Chief Justice Durham is on the Council of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Associationīs Council of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
Along with teaching state constitutional law at the University of Utah College of Law, Justice Durham has also taught at Duke University and Brigham Young University. She has received honorary degrees from the University of Utah, Weber State University, Salt Lake Community College, and the College of Eastern Utah and has been recognized nationally for her work in judicial education and efforts to improve the administration of justice. In 2007, Chief Justice Durham received the William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence.
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ASSOCIATE CHIEF JUSTICE MATTHEW B. DURRANT |  | Associate Chief Justice Matthew B. Durrant was appointed to the Utah Supreme Court in January 2000 by Governor Michael O. Leavitt. At that time, he was serving as a trial judge in the Third Judicial District. He has served as the Supreme Court representative on the Utah Judicial Council and has previously served as Associate Chief Justice. He was the founding chair of the Supreme Court's Professionalism Committee. He also has chaired the Judicial Council's Technology Committee. Justice Durrant received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1984. After a clerkship with Judge Monroe G. McKay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, he joined the Salt Lake law firm now known as Parr, Waddoups, Brown, Gee, & Loveless, where he was a shareholder at the time of his appointment to the district bench. He also has taught as an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School. 12/06 |
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JUSTICE RONALD E. NEHRING |  | Justice Ronald E. Nehring was appointed to the Utah Supreme Court by Gov. Michael O. Leavitt in May 2003 after eight years of service on the Third District Court bench. A graduate of Cornell University and the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, Justice Nehring began his professional career with Utah Legal Services and was a shareholder with the Salt Lake City firm of Prince, Yeates and Geldzahler at the time of his appointment to the District Court bench. At the time of his appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Nehring was the presiding judge of the Third District Court. He has also served as chair of the Board of District Court Judges, a member of the Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct, and is a member of the Utah Judicial Council. Justice Nehring is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. 5/06
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JUSTICE JILL N. PARRISH |  | Justice Jill N. Parrish was appointed to the Utah Supreme Court by Governor Michael O. Leavitt in January of 2003. After receiving her law degree from the Yale Law School in 1985, Justice Parrish completed a judicial clerkship with the Honorable David K. Winder of the United States District Court for the District of Utah. Thereafter, she joined the Salt Lake City law firm of Parr, Waddoups, Brown Gee & Loveless, where she focused her practice on commercial litigation. She became a shareholder in the firm in 1990. From 1995 until her appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Parrish served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney=s Office for the District of Utah, where she supervised the Financial Litigation Unit. Justice Parrish currently serves as chair of both the Supreme Court Committee on Civility and Professionalism and the State Law Library Oversight Committee. She is a member of the Court Technology Committee. Justice Parrish is a past president of the Utah Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and currently serves as the State Court Liaison to that organization. 9/08 |
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JUSTICE MICHAEL J. WILKINS |  | Justice Michael J. Wilkins was appointed to the Utah Supreme Court in January 2000, after six years on the Utah Court of Appeals. He has served on numerous judiciary and civic communities, including the Utah Judicial Council, Utah's Executive Compensation Commission, as chair of the Judicial Council's Policy and Planning Committee, Legislative Liaison Committee, and Standing Committee on Technology, as well as a state Bar Examiner. While at the Court of Appeals, Justice Wilkins was elected by his peers to serve as both Associate Presiding Judge, and as Presiding Judge. Justice Wilkins earned a bachelor's degree (B.S. 1975) and law degree (J.D. 1977) from the University of Utah, and an advanced law degree (LL.M. 2001) from the University of Virginia. He is a frequent speaker and instructor on professionalism, the role of the courts, and other legal topics. He has also taught courses as an adjunct lecturer in law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Justice Wilkins was engaged in the private practice of law in Salt Lake City. He also served in the United States Army from 1968 to 1972 as an intelligence analyst, and later as an intelligence officer. 12/08
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