JUDGE LINDA M. JONES
Judge Linda M. Jones was appointed in October 2017 by Governor Gary Herbert to the Third Judicial District Court, serving Salt Lake, Tooele, and Summit Counties. Before her appointment, she was a founding partner of Zimmerman Jones Booher, LLC, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law teaching appellate advocacy. She graduated from the S.J. Quinney College of Law in 1989, where she was a William H. Leary Scholar and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Contemporary Law. Following law school, Judge Jones was in private practice with the Salt Lake law firm of Anderson & Karrenberg, and in 1995, she joined the appellate division of the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association. She has served on several Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committees, including the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence, the Advisory Committee on the Model Criminal Jury Instructions, and the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professionalism. In addition, she served on the Utah Task Force for Indigent Defense and on the Utah Appellate Court Nominating Commission. She is a recipient of the Utah State Bar Professionalism Award, has served as president of the board for Salt Lake Valley Habitat for Humanity, and is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. 1/19
