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Justice Jill M. Pohlman was appointed to the Utah Supreme Court in June 2022 by Governor Spencer J. Cox. At the time, she was serving as Associate Presiding Judge on the Utah Court of Appeals. Judge Pohlman graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah in 1993 and received her Juris Doctorate from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah in 1996, where she served on the Utah Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable David K. Winder of the United States District Court for the District of Utah. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Pohlman was a partner at the law firm of Stoel Rives LLP in Salt Lake City. She practiced there for 19 years during which she maintained a complex civil litigation practice, including administrative, trial, and appellate work. Justice Pohlman currently chairs the Judicial Council's Office of Fairness and Accountability Committee and has previously served on several committees; including the Judicial Council's Committee on Judicial Outreach, the Utah Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on the Rules of Appellate Procedure, and the Utah Supreme Court's Ethics and Discipline Committee. 10/23