PRESIDING JUDGE MARK S. KOURIS
Judge Mark S. Kouris was appointed to the Third District Court serving Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties in April 2006 by Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. Judge Kouris received a Bachelors Degree in Accounting and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Utah. He worked in management for Procter & Gamble before starting and managing a packaging and shipping company. After selling the company, Judge Kouris received his law degree from the University of Utah in 1993. He then worked as an Assistant Utah Attorney General before becoming a prosecutor for the Salt Lake County District Attorneys Office. Judge Kouris then joined the Utah Federal Defenders Office working exclusively in the Federal Court System before his appointment to the bench. While on the bench, Judge Kouris has operated a Felony Drug Court from 2006 - 2015. He served on the Board of District Court Judges from 2011 - 2017, where the last year he served as chair. Judge Kouris has served as the Associate Presiding Judge of the Third District from June 2017 to June 2019. He then became the Presiding Judge for the Third District from June 2019 to the present. He has served on the Advisory Board of the Salt Lake Family Justice Center from 2015 to the present. Judge Kouris is also an adjunct professor at the University of Utah College of Law and Salt Lake Community College. 4/20
