JUDGE JAMES T. BLANCH
Judge James T. Blanch was appointed to the Third District Court in August 2012 by Governor Gary Herbert. He serves Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele counties. Judge Blanch received a bachelor's degree with high distinction from the University of Virginia in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated cum laude with a juris doctorate degree from Harvard Law School in 1993. From 1993 until his appointment to the bench, Judge Blanch practiced law at the Salt Lake City firm of Parsons Behle & Latimer, maintaining a broad civil litigation practice, including both trial and appellate work. He has worked as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law and is a past president of both the Salt Lake County Bar Association and the David K. Watkiss-Sutherland II American Inn of Court. Judge Blanch has been a member of the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure since 1999 and is one of the initial members of the Utah Pro Bono Commission. 8/12
