How do judges of the Utah Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Utah Supreme Court / Joined 1933 / Served to 1947

Abe W. Turner

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

Abe W. Turner was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1947
Tenure: 1933–1947 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Utah
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Turner authored 31 published opinions for the court (1935–1946), plus 6 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Williams v. Harris, Warden (25 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 2 of these were attributed to Turner by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1944	Williams v. Harris, Warden	149 P.2d 640	25
1946	Van Cleave v. Lynch	166 P.2d 244	23
1946	Allen v. Allen	165 P.2d 872	17
1945	Mason v. Mason	160 P.2d 730	16
1945	Anderson v. Thomas· Concurrence	159 P.2d 142	15
1946	In Re Benner's Estate· Dissent	166 P.2d 257	14
1945	State v. Whittinghill	163 P.2d 342	14
1945	Lewis v. Dahl (Butt, Garnishers)· Concurrence	161 P.2d 362	12
1945	Anderson v. Johnson	160 P.2d 725	11
1946	Hall v. North Ogden City	166 P.2d 221	9
1945	Pacific Employers Ins. Co. v. Industrial Commission	157 P.2d 800	8
1944	United Air Lines Transport Corp. v. Industrial Commission	151 P.2d 591	8
1946	Pauly v. McCarthy· Dissent	166 P.2d 501	7
1946	Mathis v. Holland Furnace Co.	166 P.2d 518	7
1945	Tucker v. New York Life Ins. Co.	155 P.2d 173	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 40 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Utah Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Abe W. Turner on?: Abe W. Turner was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

Sources

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14 years on the Utah Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).