Paige Petersen
Paige Petersen | |
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Associate Justice of the Utah Supreme Court | |
Assumed office December 2017 | |
Appointed by | Gary Herbert |
Preceded by | Christine Durham |
Personal details | |
Born |
1972 (age 45–46) Georgia, U.S. |
Alma mater |
University of Utah Yale Law School |
Paige Petersen (born 1972) is an American lawyer and judge, who is an associate justice of the Utah Supreme Court.[1] She previously served as a Utah District Court judge from 2015 to 2017.
Education and early career
Petersen was born in Georgia in 1972, but grew up in Emery County, Utah.[2][3] She graduated from Carbon High School in Price, Utah.[3] She completed an associate degree at the College of Eastern Utah, and a bachelor's degree at the University of Utah in 1995, where she majored in political science and English.[4] Petersen was an intern at the White House in 1995-1996.[2] She completed her law degree at Yale Law School in 1999.[3]
Petersen clerked for federal judge Susan Dlott of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in 1999-2001, and was an associate attorney for the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City from 2001 to 2003.[4] She worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 2003 to 2008.[4] Petersen then spent two years in the Netherlands working as a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.[2]
In 2012, Petersen moved back to Utah, and worked for the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Utah.[4]
Judicial career
The Governor of Utah Gary Herbert appointed Petersen as a state judge in March 2015, serving on the Utah District Court for the Third Judicial District, which covers three counties: Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele.[5]
In May 2017, Utah Supreme Court justice Christine Durham announced that she would retire in November 2017.[6] Utah's Judicial nominating commission announced seven possible candidates for the Supreme Court vacancy in September 2017, including Petersen, three other state judges, and three other lawyers.[7] Governor Herbert announced Petersen as his choice to replace Durham on October 31, 2017.[3] She was confirmed by the Utah State Senate on November 15, 2017.[8]
Petersen began her service as a justice of the Utah Supreme Court in December 2017.[1] Her current term ends on January 1, 2023, and she must stand in a retention election in 2022 in order to remain in office.[9]
References
- 1 2 "Judges' Biogrpahies: Supreme Court Justices". Utah Supreme Court. State of Utah. December 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- 1 2 3 Cornish, Rita (Spring 2016). "Judicial Profile: Judge Paige Petersen" (PDF). Bar & Bench. Salt Lake County Bar Association. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 Manson, Pamela (October 31, 2017). "Gov. Herbert picks judge with 'great intellectual firepower' to fill Utah Supreme Court vacancy". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, UT. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 "Gov. Herbert appoints Paige Petersen to the Utah Supreme Court". Governor of Utah. State of Utah. October 31, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ "Paige Petersen nominated for 3rd District judgeship". Deseret News. Salt Lake City, UT. March 5, 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Manson, Pamela (May 2, 2017). "Utah Supreme Court's first female judge retiring from the bench". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, UT. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Noble, Maria (September 23, 2017). "Commission nominates 7 people for Utah Supreme Court vacancy — and like the outgoing justice, the majority are women". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, UT. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Wieber, Aubrey (November 16, 2017). "Paige Petersen unanimously confirmed to join Utah Supreme Court". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, UT. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ "Methods of Judicial Selection: Utah". National Center for State Courts. National Center for State Courts. 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.