Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 was an amendment to the Utah state constitution that sought to define marriage as a union exclusively between a man and woman. It passed in the November 2,2004,election,as did similar amendments in ten other states.
Christine Meaders Durham is an American lawyer and judge,who served as a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1982 to 2017,including service as chief justice from 2002 to 2012.
Scott Milne Matheson Jr. is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He has served on that court since 2010.
Paul George Cassell is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah,who is currently the Ronald N. Boyce Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and University Distinguished Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. He is best known as an expert in,and proponent of,victims' rights.
George Alexander Sutherland was an English-born American jurist and politician. He served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court between 1922 and 1938. As a member of the Republican Party,he also represented Utah in both houses of Congress.
David Kent Winder was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah.
Matthew B. Durrant is the chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court. He is a graduate of both Brigham Young University and Harvard Law School. Durrant had a clerkship with Judge Monroe McKay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit,a position as a lawyer for the Utah firm Parr,Brown,Gee,and Loveless for over a decade,and time spent on the bench of Utah's Third Judicial District.
Ronald E. Nehring was a justice of the Utah Supreme Court. He was appointed to the court in 2003 by Utah Governor Michael Leavitt,and he retired in 2015.
Roger I. McDonough was an American judge. He presided over Utah's Third Judicial District Court for ten years. Then in 1938 he was elected to the Utah Supreme Court,where he went on to serve as chief justice from 1947 to 1948 and 1954 to 1959. At the time of his death,his tenure was the longest of any judge or justice in the state's history. McDonough was known for his mediation efforts during the Strike wave of 1945–1946. In the response to the post-war labor crisis,President Harry S. Truman appointed him to the National Labor Relations Board. In this role,he served on multiple emergency fact-finding committees to help settle labor disputes in the steel and railroad industries.
Anthony B. Quinn was a Utah Third Judicial District court judge for Salt Lake County,Utah. He was appointed to this position in September 1996 by Gov. Michael O. Leavitt.
Judge Frederic (Ric) Oddone is serving in the Utah Third District Juvenile Court
Carolyn Baldwin McHugh is an American lawyer and judge who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. and former Presiding Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.
Scott Daniels is an attorney who has been a prominent public figure in the state of Utah,having served as a Utah State Senator and a State judge.
Richard C. Howe was an American politician and judge. At the time of his retirement in 2003,he was the only person in Utah history to serve as a member of the State House of Representatives,the State Senate,and the State Supreme Court. He served on the Utah Supreme Court from 1980 to 2002,and was the Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1998 to April 2002.
Kitchen v. Herbert,961 F.Supp.2d 1181,affirmed,755 F.3d 1193;stay granted,134 S.Ct. 893 (2014);petition for certiorari denied,No. 14-124,2014 WL 3841263,is the federal case that successfully challenged Utah's constitutional ban on marriage for same-sex couples and similar statutes. Three same-sex couples filed suit in March 2013,naming as defendants Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert,Attorney General John Swallow,and Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen in their official capacities.
J. Allen Crockett (1906–1994) was a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1951 to 1981 –longer than anyone else in Utah's history. During his long tenure on the court,he was Chief Justice three times:from 1959 to 1961,from 1967 to 1970,and from 1979 to 1981.
Paige Petersen is an American lawyer and judge,who is a justice of the Utah Supreme Court. She previously served as a Utah District Court judge from 2015 to 2017.
Diana Hagen is an American lawyer serving as a justice on the Utah Supreme Court. She served as a judge of the Utah Court of Appeals from 2017 to 2022.
Jill McKee Pohlman is an American lawyer from Utah who serves as the as a justice of the Utah Supreme Court. From 2016 to 2022,she was an associate presiding judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.
