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 2009

Pamela Greenwood

Judge, Utah Court of Appeals

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

Tenure: 1987–2009 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Greenwood authored 568 published opinions for the court (1987–2009), plus 5 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. D.S.K. v. Kasper (57 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. 470 of these were attributed to Greenwood 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
1990	State Ex Rel. D.S.K. v. Kasper†	792 P.2d 118	57
1999	Bradford v. Bradford†	993 P.2d 887	56
2003	State v. Valdovinos†	2003 UT App 432	52
1993	State v. Brown†	856 P.2d 358	48
1997	ProMax Development Corp. v. Mattson†	943 P.2d 247	45
1994	Maack v. Resource Design & Construction, Inc.†	875 P.2d 570	45
1991	State v. Harrison†	805 P.2d 769	45
1998	State in Interest of ML†	965 P.2d 551	44
1991	Howell v. Howell†	806 P.2d 1209	42
1990	State v. Hodges†	798 P.2d 270	42
1993	Andreason v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.†	848 P.2d 171	41
1992	Provo City v. Warden†	844 P.2d 360	41
2000	State v. Larsen	999 P.2d 1252	40
1988	Rasband v. Rasband	752 P.2d 1331	39
2008	Jensen v. Jensen†	2008 UT App 392	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 584 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 Pamela Greenwood on?: Pamela Greenwood was a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.

Sources

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22 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).