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 / Served to 2008

Judith M. Billings

Judge, Utah Court of Appeals

Judith M. Billings was a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–2008 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Billings authored 569 published opinions for the court (1987–2008), plus 6 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Grace Drilling Co. v. Board of Review (105 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. 445 of these were attributed to Billings 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	Grace Drilling Co. v. Board of Review	776 P.2d 63	105
1989	Amica Mutual Insurance Co. v. Schettler†	768 P.2d 950	86
1987	Colman v. Colman	743 P.2d 782	76
1991	Steffensen v. Smith's Management Corp.†	820 P.2d 482	74
1990	State v. Robinson	797 P.2d 431	60
1991	State v. Archambeau	820 P.2d 920	59
1990	State v. Marshall	791 P.2d 880	56
1987	James v. Preston	746 P.2d 799	55
1987	Davies v. Olson†	746 P.2d 264	52
1989	Sampson v. Richins†	770 P.2d 998	51
1993	King v. Industrial Com'n of Utah†	850 P.2d 1281	49
1988	State v. Sierra†	754 P.2d 972	49
1991	Bell v. Bell†	810 P.2d 489	47
1987	State v. Trujillo†	739 P.2d 85	47
1998	State in Interest of NR†	967 P.2d 951	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 583 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 Judith M. Billings on?: Judith M. Billings was a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.

Sources

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21 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).