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

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

Utah Court of Appeals / Joined 2005 / Served to 2013

Carolyn B. McHugh

Judge, Utah Court of Appeals

Carolyn B. McHugh was a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005–2013 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Utah Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McHugh authored 175 published opinions for the court (2005–2013), plus 4 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Adoption of T.H. (50 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. 193 of these were attributed to McHugh 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
2007	In Re Adoption of T.H.†	171 P.3d 480	50
2011	State Ex Rel. J.D.†	257 P.3d 1062	46
2007	EAGALA, INC. v. Department of Workforce Services†	2007 UT App 43	37
2006	Ellison v. Stam†	2006 UT App 150	35
2006	Pete v. Youngblood†	2006 UT App 303	34
2008	State v. Balfour†	2008 UT App 410	31
2009	State v. Marchet†	2009 UT App 262	29
2007	Markham v. Bradley†	2007 UT App 379	24
2012	State v. High†	2012 UT App 180	23
2008	Forsberg v. Bovis Lend Lease, Inc.†	2008 UT App 146	23
2012	Anderson & Karrenberg v. Warnick†	2012 UT App 275	22
2007	Tuttle v. Olds· Concurrence†	2007 UT App 10	22
2009	Richards v. Brown†	2009 UT App 315	21
2008	Anderson v. Thompson†	2008 UT App 3	21
2011	Bott v. Osburn†	2011 UT App 139	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 193 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Carolyn B. McHugh on?: Carolyn B. McHugh was a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.

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