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 2013 / Active

John A. Pearce

Judge, Utah Court of Appeals

John A. Pearce is a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Utah Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pearce authored 70 published opinions for the court (2014–2016), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Beckering (37 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. 73 of these were attributed to Pearce 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
2015	State v. Beckering†	2015 UT App 53	37
2015	State v. Hards†	2015 UT App 42	32
2014	Wohnoutka v. Kelley†	330 P.3d 762	32
2015	State v. Kennedy†	2015 UT App 152	30
2014	Tobler v. Tobler†	2014 UT App 239	30
2015	State v. Black†	2015 UT App 30	24
2014	Giles v. Mineral Resources International, Inc.†	2014 UT App 259	21
2014	State v. Waterfield†	322 P.3d 1194	20
2014	R.B. v. L.B.†	339 P.3d 137	18
2015	Fidelity National Title Insurance Co. v. Worthington†	2015 UT App 19	13
2015	Anderson v. Larry H. Miller Communications Corp.†	2015 UT App 134	12
2015	State v. Martinez†	2015 UT App 193	11
2015	State v. Roman†	2015 UT App 183	11
2015	State v. Lujan· Dissent†	2015 UT App 199	9
2015	State v. Bravo†	2015 UT App 17	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 73 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 John A. Pearce on?: John A. Pearce is a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.

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12 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).