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 2010 / Active

Stephen Roth

Judge, Utah Court of Appeals

Stephen Roth is a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Utah Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Brigham Young University-Provo

Judicial Record

In our data, Roth authored 224 published opinions for the court (2010–2018), plus 2 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Burke (56 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. 233 of these were attributed to Roth 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
2011	State v. Burke†	2011 UT App 168	56
2013	State v. Wright†	2013 UT App 142	42
2014	Ockey v. Club Jam†	328 P.3d 880	41
2012	Gardner v. Gardner†	2012 UT App 374	40
2016	Taft v. Taft†	2016 UT App 135	34
2012	Hone v. Advanced Shoring & Underpinning, Inc.†	2012 UT App 327	32
2012	Henshaw v. Henshaw†	2012 UT App 56	31
2014	Barrani v. Barrani†	2014 UT App 204	30
2010	State v. Cristobal†	2010 UT App 228	30
2014	Kidd v. Kidd†	321 P.3d 200	26
2011	Duchesne Land, LC v. Division of Consumer Protection†	2011 UT App 153	26
2013	State v. Curtis†	317 P.3d 968	24
2013	State v. Sommerville†	2013 UT App 40	23
2012	PC Crane Service, LLC v. McQueen Masonry, Inc.†	2012 UT App 61	22
2017	Smith v. Smith†	2017 UT App 40	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 233 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 Stephen Roth on?: Stephen Roth is a Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.

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16 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).