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 1987 / Active

Gregory K. Orme

Judge, Utah Court of Appeals

Gregory K. Orme is a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals, serving since 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1987 · 39 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Utah Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

George Washington University

Judicial Record

In our data, Orme authored 744 published opinions for the court (1987–2019), plus 41 dissents and 89 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Sery (213 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. 785 of these were attributed to Orme 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
1988	State v. Sery	758 P.2d 935	213
1991	West Valley City v. Majestic Investment Co.†	818 P.2d 1311	98
2009	Kimball v. Kimball†	2009 UT App 233	84
1993	State v. Tennyson†	850 P.2d 461	83
1990	Burt v. Burt†	799 P.2d 1166	64
1990	State v. Talbot†	792 P.2d 489	63
1989	Mountain States Broadcasting Co. v. Neale†	783 P.2d 551	62
1988	Salt Lake City Corp. v. James Constructors, Inc.†	761 P.2d 42	60
1987	State v. Pursifell†	746 P.2d 270	56
1990	State v. Bobo†	803 P.2d 1268	55
1996	State v. Irwin†	924 P.2d 5	53
1993	Hall v. Hall†	858 P.2d 1018	53
2001	T.M. v. State· Concurrence†	37 P.3d 1188	51
1994	State ex rel. J.J.T.†	877 P.2d 161	51
1991	State v. Perdue	813 P.2d 1201	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 874 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 is Gregory K. Orme on?: Gregory K. Orme is a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.

Sources

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39 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).