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Judges' Biographies
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PRESIDING JUDGE J. MARK ANDRUS |  | Judge J. Mark Andrus was appointed to the Second District Juvenile Court in September 1994 by Gov. Michael O. Leavitt. He serves Davis, Morgan, and Weber Counties. Judge Andrus received a law degree from the University of Utah College of Law in 1982. He was an attorney with the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association prior to accepting a position with the Davis County Attorney’s Office in 1983. He has served as Presiding Judge in the Second District Juvenile Court, as chair of the Board of Juvenile Court Judges, as a member of the Utah Judicial Council, and as a member of the Juvenile Court Re-codification Committee, the Family Court Task Force, the Sentencing Commission, and the Board of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Judge Andrus is a member of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and a faculty member on the Utah Judicial Institute. Judge Andrus is currently serving on the Court Improvement Committee. 09/09
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ASSOCIATE PRESIDING JUDGE JANICE L. FROST | | | Judge Janice L. Frost was appointed to the Second District Juvenile Court by Gov. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. in December 2008. She serves Davis, Morgan, and Weber counties.
Judge Frost graduated from the University of Utah College of Law in 1985 and is a graduate of Brigham Young University where she earned a degree in history and secondary education. From 1985 to 1989, Judge Frost worked in private practice and from 1989 to 1994, served as an assistant city prosecutor for Salt Lake City, later becoming an assistant attorney general in the criminal appeals division. In 1995, Judge Frost became a senior attorney with the National District Attorneys Association where she was responsible for training prosecutors throughout the United States in trial advocacy skills, particularly as those skills relate to impaired driving prosecution. In 1998, Judge Frost returned to the Utah Attorney General’s office where she worked in the Child Protection Division practicing in the Second District Juvenile Court. From 2002 until her appointment to the bench, Judge Frost was the deputy city attorney for the City of South Salt Lake. She has served on the Utah Prosecution Council Training Committee, the Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor’s Advisory Committee, and the Statewide Association of Prosecutors Legislative Action Committee. 09/09
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JUDGE PAUL IWASAKI |  | Judge Paul Iwasaki was appointed to the Second District Juvenile Court by Gov. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. in September 2005. He serves Davis, Morgan, and Weber counties. Judge Iwasaki received a law degree from the University of Utah College of Law in 1980 and served as a prosecutor with the Salt Lake County Attorney's Office from 1981 to 1987.
From 1987 to 1989, Judge Iwasaki served as an administrative law judge with the Department of Employment Security. He then worked as an administrative law judge with the Utah State Tax Commission and as the Director of Appeals and Legal Affairs until 1994, at which time he joined the Utah Attorney General's Office. While at the Attorney General's Office, he served first in the Tax and Revenue Division, and later in the Child Protection Division. In 2002, Judge Iwasaki was appointed to the Salt Lake City Justice Court where he served until his appointment to the Second District Juvenile Court bench. He currently serves on the Judicial Outreach Committee, Governor’s Gang Task Force, and is the Presiding Judge for the Second District Juvenile Court.
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