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 2014 / Active

Kate A. Toomey

Judge, Utah Court of Appeals

Kate A. Toomey is a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Utah Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Toomey authored 141 published opinions for the court (2015–2018). Most cited: State v. Crespo (18 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. 141 of these were attributed to Toomey 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
2017	State v. Crespo†	2017 UT App 219	18
2016	Telegraph Tower LLC v. Century Mortgage LLC†	2016 UT App 102	16
2018	Erickson v. Erickson†	2018 UT App 184	11
2016	Lebrecht v. Deep Blue Pools & Spas Inc.†	2016 UT App 110	11
2015	State v. Maama†	2015 UT App 235	11
2018	Gardiner v. Anderson†	2018 UT App 167	10
2018	Anderson v. Anderson†	2018 UT App 19	10
2015	Hi-Country Estates Homeowners Ass'n v. Jesse Rodney Dansie Living Trust†	2015 UT App 218	10
2015	Solis v. Burningham Enterprises Inc.†	2015 UT App 11	10
2017	State v. Cowlishaw†	2017 UT App 181	9
2017	State v. Cline†	2017 UT App 50	9
2016	Gordon v. State†	2016 UT App 190	9
2018	K.P.S. v. E.J.P.†	414 P.3d 933	8
2017	Spencer v. Glover†	2017 UT App 69	8
2017	State v. Neilson†	2017 UT App 7	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 141 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 Kate A. Toomey on?: Kate A. Toomey is a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.

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11 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).