Judge Jay T. Winward was appointed to the Fifth District Court in December 2022 by Governor Spencer J. Cox. He serves Beaver, Iron, and Washington Counties. Judge Winward graduated with a degree in chemistry from the University of Utah. He attended law school at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. After law school, Judge Winward was a partner at Winward Law and then represented the United States of America as a federal prosecutor. During his career, he served a detail in Bogota, Colombia on behalf of the United States Department of Justice and trained prosecutors throughout the country. Judge Winward teaches Business Law at Utah Tech University. 3/2023