Judge Jil
l M. Pohlman was appointed to the Utah Court of Appeals in May 2016 by Gove
rnor Gary Herbert. Judge Pohlman graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Univers
ity of Utah in 1993, and received her Juris Doctorate from the S.J. Quinney
College of Law at the University of Utah in 1996, where she served on the
Utah Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. After law school, she cler
ked for the Honorable David K. Winder of the United States District Court f
or the District of Utah. Prior to her appointment, Judge Pohlman was a part
ner at the law firm of Stoel Rives LLP in Salt Lake City. She practiced the
re for 19 years during which she maintained a complex civil litigation prac
tice, including administrative, trial, and appellate work. She was a member
of the Utah Supreme Court's Ethics and Discipline Committee, during wh
ich time she acted as panel chair. She also served on the Utah Supreme Cour
t's Diversion Committee. Judge Pohlman currently sits on the Utah Supre
me Court's Advisory Committee on the Rules of Appellate Procedure and t
he Judicial Council's Committee on Judicial Outreach. She is also a mem
ber of the Utah State Bar Litigation Section executive committee. 11/17&nbs
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