JUSTICE MATTHEW L. BELL
Justice Matthew L. Bell was appointed to the Utah Supreme Court on August 28, 2026 by Governor Spencer J. Cox. At the time of his appointment, he was serving as a Presiding Judge with the Fifth District Court where he had been appointed in September 2017 by Governor Gary R. Herbert. Prior to his appointment in the Fifth District, Justice Bell worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Utah and as a Trial Attorney in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He graduated magna cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 2003. Prior to law school, he served as a police officer in St. George, Utah. 9/26
