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PRESIDING JUDGE PAMELA T. GREENWOOD |  | Judge Pamela T. Greenwood was appointed to the Utah Court of Appeals by Gov. Norman H. Bangerter in January 1987. She received a law degree in 1972 from the University of Utah College of Law. Judge Greenwood served as general counsel and vice president of First Interstate Bank of Utah for seven years. She was counsel for the Utah State Bar from 1977 to 1980 and an attorney with the law firm of Roe and Fowler from 1976 to 1977. Judge Greenwood is a past president of the Utah State Bar, was a member of the Gender and Justice Task Force, and served as vice chair of the Utah Judicial Council from 1992 to 1998. She was acting State Court administrator from January 1995 to September 1995. Judge Greenwood was honored as the Utah Woman Lawyer of the Year in 1993 and received a Special Service Award from the Utah State Bar in 1996. She chaired the Privacy and Public Court Records Committee and is a member of the Court Improvement Project. Judge Greenwood currently serves as presiding judge of the Court of Appeals. 05/08 |
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ASSOCIATE PRESIDING JUDGE WILLIAM A. THORNE, JR. |  | Judge William A. Thorne, Jr., was appointed to the Utah Court of Appeals in May 2000 by Gov. Michael O. Leavitt. He was a judge in the Third Circuit Court for eight years, having been appointed by Governor Norman Bangerter in 1986, and served in the Third District Court for six years, having been appointed by Governor Leavitt in 1994. Judge Thorne received a B.A. from the University of Santa Clara in 1974 and a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1977. Judge Thorne has served as a tribal court judge in Utah, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Michigan. He is the former president of the National Indian Justice Center (a nonprofit that trains tribal court personnel around the country), and a member of the Board of Directors for National CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates, a nonprofit group that provides volunteer representation for abused and neglected children in court). He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute (a nonprofit seeking to improve the level of research and practice related to adoptions), and a member of the ABA Steering Committee on the Unmet Legal Needs of Children. He is a former member of the Utah Judicial Council, the Board of Circuit Court Judges, and the Board of Directors for the National Indian Court Judge’s Association. He is also a former chair of the Utah Juvenile Justice Task Force of the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, former vice-chair of the Utah Board of Youth Corrections, former co-chair of the Judicial Council’s Committee on Improving jury Service, former chair of the Judicial Council’s Bail Bonding Committee, former member of the Court Technology Committee, former member of the Salt Lake County Domestic Violence Advisory Committee, and a former member of the steering committee for the Judicial Council’s Task Force on Racial and Ethnic Fairness. 10/05
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JUDGE RUSSELL W. BENCH |  | Judge Russell W. Bench was appointed in 1986 by Gov. Norman H. Bangerter as an original member of the Utah Court of Appeals. He took the oath of office in January 1987. After earning a law degree from the University of Utah College of Law in 1976, Judge Bench completed judicial clerkships for Chief Justice F. Henri Henriod and Chief Justice Gordon R. Hall of the Utah Supreme Court. Later, he served as a central staff attorney for the Utah Supreme Court. In 1985, Judge Bench earned his Master of Public Administration degree from Brigham Young University. Judge Bench has served twice as the presiding judge of the Court of Appeals, most recently from 2006 to 2008. He served previously as vice-chair of the Utah Judicial Council and as chair of various Judicial Council committees. He is currently a member of the Court Facilities Planning Committee. Judge Bench has also served on the Judicial Conduct Commission since 2002. 10/08
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JUDGE JAMES Z. DAVIS |  | Judge James Z. Davis was appointed to the Utah Court of Appeals by Gov. Michael O. Leavitt in November 1993. He received a law degree from the University of Utah College of Law in 1968. He served in military intelligence in the U.S. Army until 1970. Judge Davis was in private practice from 1971 to 1977, Deputy Weber County Attorney and Weber County Police Legal Advisor from 1973 to 1982, a partner in Thatcher, Glasmann & Davis from 1977 to 1982, and a shareholder and director at Ray, Quinney & Nebeker from 1982 until his appointment to the bench. Judge Davis was president of the Utah State Bar from 1991 to 1992. He completed a two-year term as presiding judge in January 1999. 10/05 |
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JUDGE CAROLYN B. MCHUGH |  | Judge Carolyn B. McHugh was appointed to the Utah Court of Appeals by Gov. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., in August 2005. She received her law degree in 1982 from the University of Utah College of Law, where she was an editor of the Utah Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. Upon graduation, Judge McHugh served as a law clerk to Judge Bruce S. Jenkins of the United States District Court for the District of Utah. She was a shareholder in the Salt Lake City law firm of Parr Waddoups Brown Gee & Loveless until her appointment to the bench. Judge McHugh is a past president of Women Lawyers of Utah, co-chair of the American Bar Association Conference of Environmental Law, and chair of the Utah State Bar Needs of Children Committee. She has been honored with the Christine M. Durham Utah Woman Lawyer of the Year Award, the Dorathy Merrill Brothers Award for the Advancement of Women in the Profession, the University of Utah Young Alumna of the Year Award, and as the chairperson of the Utah State Bar Distinguished Committee. In 2009, Judge McHugh was named a fellow in the Advance Science & Technology Adjudication Resource Center.
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JUDGE GREGORY K. ORME |  | Judge Gregory K. Orme was appointed to the Utah Court of Appeals by Gov. Norman H. Bangerter in January 1987. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1975. Three years later he received a law degree, with high honors, from George Washington University, in Washington D.C. Judge Orme served as a law clerk to Judge Monroe G. McKay, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and was a partner in the law firm of VanCott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy. Judge Orme has served a two-year term as presiding judge, two prior terms on the Judicial Council, six years as chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee, and ten years on the Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee. Judge Orme currently serves on the Judicial Council, the Utah Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on the Rules of Appellate Procedure, the Advisory Committee on Professionalism, and the Utah Sentencing Commission. Judge Orme is also the judicial advisor to the Utah Bar Journal and a member of the executive committee of the Utah State Bar's Appellate Practice Section. Judge Orme is the recipient of the Utah State Bar's annual awards for Young Lawyer of the Year (1986) and Judge of the Year (2007). He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. 5/08
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