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JUDGE JEFF MANN

Judge Jeff Mann was appointed to the Third District Court in June 2026 by Governor Spencer J. Cox. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Prior to his appointment, Judge Mann worked for nearly ten years at the Utah Attorney General’s Office in the Criminal Appeals Division, the last four of which he served as the Search and Seizure Section Director. As an Assistant Solicitor General, Judge Mann litigated dozens of criminal cases before the Utah Supreme Court and the Utah Court of Appeals. Immediately prior to his appointment, he also served a five-year term on the Committee on Model Utah Criminal Jury Instructions. Previously, he worked in private practice for five years doing criminal and civil litigation in state and federal courts. Judge Mann received his Juris Doctor and graduated with High Honors from the University of Utah, S. J. Quinney College of Law in 2011, where he was a William H. Leary Scholar, an Articles Editor for the Utah Law Review, winner of the Best Brief award at the law school’s Traynor Moot Court competition, and a member of the law school’s 2010–11 National Moot Court team that won first place and the Best Brief award at the regional level. He received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a minor in Logic from Brigham Young University in 2008.         10/26

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