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 1977 / Served to 1994

Gordon R. Hall

Justice, Utah Supreme Court

Gordon R. Hall was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1926 · age 100
Tenure: 1977–1994 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Utah Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Utah
University of Utah

Judicial Record

In our data, Hall authored 655 published opinions for the court (1971–1993), plus 100 dissents and 72 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Carter (271 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. 300 of these were attributed to Hall 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
1989	State v. Carter	776 P.2d 886	271
1988	State v. Bishop	753 P.2d 439	250
1987	State v. Walker· Dissent†	743 P.2d 191	237
1987	State v. Tillman	750 P.2d 546	213
1989	State v. Rimmasch· Concurrence†	775 P.2d 388	202
1982	State v. Wood· Concurrence†	648 P.2d 71	180
1991	Morton International, Inc. v. Auditing Division of the Utah State Tax Commission	814 P.2d 581	170
1986	State v. Long· Concurrence†	721 P.2d 483	164
1991	State v. James	819 P.2d 781	163
1990	State v. Templin	805 P.2d 182	158
1983	State v. Petree· Dissent†	659 P.2d 443	148
1989	Condemarin v. University Hospital· Dissent†	775 P.2d 348	131
1991	Clover v. Snowbird Ski Resort	808 P.2d 1037	127
1983	Nelson v. Jacobsen· Concurrence†	669 P.2d 1207	116
1988	State v. Copeland· Concurrence†	765 P.2d 1266	115

Showing the 15 most-cited of 828 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 Gordon R. Hall on?: Gordon R. Hall was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

Sources

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17 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).