Judge Glen R. Dawson served as a State District Court Judge for over 24 years from 1994 until he became a Senior Judge in January 2019. As a state court judge he presided over a variety of criminal, civil and domestic trials. He also served three years as the Drug Court Judge for Davis County then helped organize the Mental Health Court in Davis County and served as the Davis County Mental Health Court Judge for eight years. He served on the Utah Judicial Council for three years and as a member of the Board of District Court Judges. He served as the Presiding Judge and the Associate Presiding Judge of the Second Judicial District for two year terms. During his time on the bench he also taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Utah in the Trial Advocacy Department and as an Adjunct Professor at Weber State University in Criminal Justice and was a member of the Utah State Bar Litigation Section Executive Committee.
Teneille Brown is a Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law and an adjunct in the Department of Internal Medicine. She graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, and completed three post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford. Her research is highly interdisciplinary, and spans a wide range of issues at the intersection of law, genetics, neuroscience, medicine, and ethics. Her work has been highlighted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and on national NPR outlets. Professor Brown teaches Torts, Evidence, and a recent seminar on the Opioid Crisis. She is on the Executive Committee for the AALS Evidence section and the Utah's Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Evidence.
Bud Cox is a retired law enforcement professional. He has been retired for 10 plus years and is looking for an opportunity to stay connected with the Judicial System. Bud was elected as the Sheriff of Davis County, Utah serving as Sheriff for three terms. During his career he was appointed by the Governor to serve on several committees including Law Enforcement, Emergency Medical Services, and Peace Officer Standards and Training. Bud also served on the Boards of Universities, domestic violence shelter, and juvenile court boards.
Bud has a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Weber State University, and a Master of Public Administration degree from Brigham Young University. Bud is a graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and the Backster School of Lie Detection in San Diego, California.
Christopher L. Shaw graduated from the J. Reuben Clark law school at Brigham Young University, cum laude, in April of 1984. He was admitted to the Utah Bar in October of 1984. He practiced privately for 23 years at the Ogden law firm of Gridley, Ward & Shaw. His private practice focused primarily on plaintiff’s personal injury law, civil litigation, small business law, and criminal defense in both state and federal court. During private practice he served one term on the Utah Trial Lawyers Board of Governors (now The Utah Association for Justice). In June of 2007 Mr. Shaw left private practice to prosecute felony cases at the Weber County Attorney’s Office where he practiced the final twelve years of his career before retiring in March of 2019.
Marina Baginsky Lowe is an advocate and lobbyist focused on civil liberties issues. She currently represents the ACLU of Utah, as well as other non profits on issues such as LGBT rights, reproductive freedom and criminal justice policy. She was previously the dedicated the Legislative & Policy Counsel for the ACLU of Utah, whom she represented at the State Capitol from January through March, and throughout the rest of the year, and cultivated relationships with elected officials - from U.S. Congressmen and Senators to local city council members - across the state to further the protection of civil liberties in Utah. Ms. Lowe’s efforts have been particularly focused on criminal justice reform; over the years she has successfully drafted and passed numerous bills in the Utah State Legislature, on topics from bail and policing reform, to prison and jail conditions, to strengthening 4th Amendment protections in the face of new and emerging technologies.
Ms. Lowe has also worked with the Salt Lake Legal Defenders Association, in the Appellate Division, and at the international law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP in San Francisco, concentrating on commercial litigation, as well as intellectual property counseling and litigation. Ms. Lowe grew up in Northern California, and before graduating from the University of California Hastings College of the Law, spent two years working in marketing at Hewlett-Packard in Grenoble, France.
Stephen L. Roth was appointed to the Utah Court of Appeals in March 2010 and served there until he retired in August 2017. Before that he served as a trial judge in the Third District Court from January 2002 until appointment to the Court of Appeals. After serving in the United States Marine Corps from 1970 to 1974, Judge Roth attended law school at Brigham Young University, graduating in 1977. He worked as an associate at the Seattle firm of Bogle & Gates from 1977 to 1978. He was an associate and then member of Snow, Christensen & Martineau in Salt Lake City from 1978 until 1991, doing primarily commercial litigation. From 1991 until appointed to the trial bench, Judge Roth served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Utah, working as a trial lawyer in the civil division of the United States Attorney's office. While on the bench, Judge Roth served as an adjunct professor in the trial advocacy program at the University of Utah College of Law, on the Utah Supreme Court's Advisory Committee for Rules of Professional Conduct, and as a member of the executive committees of the Safe at Home Coalition (now the Family Justice Center) and the Utah State Bar Litigation Section. He served as chair of the Judicial Council's Study Committee on Representation of Indigent Criminal Defendants and the Commissioner Conduct Committee. Judge Roth also served as a member of the Judicial Conduct Commission, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, the Court Facilities Planning Committee, and the Aldon J. Anderson American Inn of Court. He continued on as a senior judge after retirement, until appointed as pro tempore member of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole in February 2019, where he served until March 2020.
BA political science The Ohio State University 1974
JD University of Utah College of Law 1977
Criminal defense attorney in private practice since 1977--
Adrienne Gillespie Andrews is the Assistant Vice President for Diversity and Chief Diversity Officer at Weber State University. Adrienne holds both BA and MA degrees in Political Science and Women’s Studies and a post-graduate degree in Conflict Resolution & Mediation. She is currently completing a PhD in Education, Culture and Society at the University of Utah. In addition to her work in education, she has worked in a variety of government capacities including as the Director of the Center for Youth Policy and Programs for the State of New Jersey and Staff Associate in the New Jersey Department of State.
A native Utahan, Adrienne was raised in Davis County and has a long history of advocacy in social justice and inclusion work with a special capacity for community building. Adrienne currently serves as a member of the MacKay-Dee and Layton Hospital Governing Board, the Boys & Girls Club of Weber-Davis Board, the LHM Charities Board and as a Honorary Commander of the Hill Air Force Base 75th Wing. Most recently, Andrews completed service terms with the Utah Governor’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Commission, Ogden Diversity Commission and Ogden/Weber Chamber of Commerce Women in Business Executive Committee.
Molly Davis is a policy analyst specializing in criminal justice at Libertas Institute, a Utah think tank that works to change hearts, minds, and laws to build a freer society. At Libertas she has worked to help pass numerous laws alongside private coalitions and public stakeholders to improve Utah's justice system.
She cares deeply about achieving justice and integrity in the criminal justice system and works to educate the public about pressing criminal policy issues through writing and media outreach for Young Voices. She is also the Executive Director of the Utah Cannabis Association
Prior to joining Libertas staff in 2019, she graduated magna cum laude with a BA from Rocky Mountain College in Montana with a degree in political science and communication studies.
Paul G. Maughan was appointed to the Third Judicial District Court in 1998 and served for eighteen years from. He became a senior judge in 2018 and served until 2021. During his service he presided over both criminal and civil matters. He attended the University of Utah Law School, graduating in 1974. He worked as an Assistant City Attorney for Salt Lake City for ten years and then joined tax and estate planning firm of Bradley, Arrowsmith, and Jackson. He then worked in the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office handing real estate, environmental, and land use matters until 1998 when he was appointed to the bench. While on the bench Judge Maughan served two terms on the Board of District Court Judges, serving one year as its Chair. He also served two terms on the State's Judicial Council, and was selected by his peers to serve as the Associate Presiding Judge for the Third District. He served two terms on the State's Sentencing Commission and the Supreme Court's Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct. He is a former member of Aldon J. Anderson Inn of Court.
Gary R. Heward is a life-long resident of Weber County. He graduated from Weber State University in 1982 with dual majors in Political Science and Criminal Justice. He earned his juris doctorate from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah in 1987, recognized as the David T. Lewis outstanding student in criminal law. Gary worked at the Weber County Attorney’s Office from 1985 through his retirement in 2015, serving as the Chief Criminal Deputy for the last 15 years. From 1998 to 2000 he took a leave of absence and established Utah’s first methamphetamine task force for the Attorney General’s Office where he worked closely with federal and state authorities to curb the production of clandestine labs. Upon returning to Weber County, he worked extensively with felony drug court for a decade, then helped establish Utah’s first felony DUI court in 2010. He served as the Rich County Attorney from 2014 to 2017. Gary has served on and provided advice and support to numerous agencies, local and state committees and boards.
Erin Jemison is the Director of Public Policy at the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition (UDVC). She has over 20 years of experience in the domestic and sexual violence field, including providing victim services, managing prevention education programs, leading the sexual assault coalition in Colorado (CCASA), serving as Chairperson of the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board, and now directing UDVC’s statewide domestic violence public policy strategy. Ms. Jemison also oversaw state legislative projects focused on criminal and juvenile justice reform as Policy Manager at the Crime & Justice Institute, and while serving as the Director of Public Policy at YWCA Utah. She has been successful in passing legislation in both Colorado and Utah on public safety, offender treatment, victim rights, housing access, and others, as well as leading efforts to more than double state budget investments in community-based social services. Ms. Jemison has a Bachelor’s in Sociology and a Master’s in Public Administration with a focus on public policy.