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Judge Ryan D. Tenney was appointed to the Utah Court of Appeals in June 2021 by Governor Spencer J. Cox. Judge Tenney graduated from the University of Utah in 2000 and BYU Law School in 2003, both with honors. After graduating from law school, Judge Tenney clerked for Judge Norman Jackson of the Utah Court of Appeals. He then spent several years practicing with a civil litigation firm in Provo, after which he spent almost a decade as an attorney in the criminal appeals division of the Utah Attorney General's Office. At the time of his appointment to the bench, Judge Tenney was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Utah, where he represented the United States in criminal appeals before the Tenth Circuit. Judge Tenney was also an adjunct professor at BYU Law School from 2008 through 2021. At BYU, Judge Tenney taught an upper division appellate brief writing seminar, a course in the international LLM Program, and he helped coach the national moot court team as well. Judge Tenney has previously served on the ethics advisory committees for both the Utah judiciary and the Utah State Bar, as chair of the Utah State Bar's constitutional law section, and as a member of the Utah Sentencing Commission. Judge Tenney currently serves as chair of the judiciary’s standing education committee, and he’s also the judicial liaison to the State Bar’s appellate practice section. 12/24