Salt Lake City, UT—The Utah Supreme Court has appointed Constance K. Lundberg, of Orem, to serve on Utah’s Judicial Conduct Commission (JCC). Lundberg replaces Ruth Lybbert, an attorney with the law firm of Dewsnup, King & Olsen, who has served on the JCC since July 2002.
Lundberg is an attorney with the law firm of Jones Waldo Holbrook & McDonough. She received a law degree from the University of Utah Law School in 1972. Prior to joining Jones Waldo Holbrook & McDonough, Lundberg served as Associate Dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School and before that as law librarian at Howard W. Hunter Law Library at Brigham Young University (BYU). She has taught public land law, mining law, environmental and conservation law, and advocacy at the law school and continues to teach alternative dispute resolution at BYU. Lundberg was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Utah State Bar’s Energy & Natural Resources Law Section.
Utah law requires the Utah Supreme Court to appoint two judges and two attorneys to serve on the JCC. One of the judges must be a member of the Utah Court of Appeals, while the other judge must be a from the district or juvenile court bench. The attorneys must be members in good standing with the Utah State Bar and each attorney must reside in a different judicial district.
Current appointees to the Judicial Conduct Commission are as follows: Utah Court of Appeals Judge Russell W. Bench, 3rd District Court Judge Royal I. Hansen, and Ronald G. Russell, attorney with the law firm of Parr, Brown, Gee and Loveless.