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 1982 / Served to 2013

Christine Meaders Durham

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

Christine Meaders Durham was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 1982–2013 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Durham authored 706 published opinions for the court (1979–2013), plus 88 dissents and 95 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. B.R. (350 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. 325 of these were attributed to Durham 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	State Ex Rel. B.R.†	171 P.3d 435	350
1988	State v. Bishop· Concurrence†	753 P.2d 439	250
1987	State v. Walker	743 P.2d 191	237
1987	State v. Tillman· Concurrence†	750 P.2d 546	213
1989	State v. Rimmasch· Concurrence†	775 P.2d 388	202
2002	Bailey v. Bayles· Concurrence†	2002 UT 58	191
2004	Jau-Fei Chen v. Stewart	2004 UT 82	185
1989	Berube v. Fashion Centre, Ltd.	771 P.2d 1033	181
2004	State v. Clark	2004 UT 25	175
1991	St. Benedict's Development Co. v. St. Benedict's Hospital	811 P.2d 194	172
1983	Jenkins v. Swan	675 P.2d 1145	146
2008	Daines v. Vincent	2008 UT 51	135
1990	State v. Larocco	794 P.2d 460	135
1989	Condemarin v. University Hospital	775 P.2d 348	131
1983	State v. Baker	671 P.2d 152	130

Showing the 15 most-cited of 891 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 Christine Meaders Durham on?: Christine Meaders Durham was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

Sources

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31 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).