Utah Court of Appeals Judge John D. Luthy will appear on the Nov. 3 general election ballot for a retention vote.

Gov. Spencer J. Cox appointed Luthy to the Court of Appeals in October 2022, according to the Utah Courts official biography. Luthy is a Cache Valley native, according to Utah Policy.

Alpine, Highland, Cedar Hills and Lehi voters will see the nonpartisan retention question on their ballots. In a retention election, no challenger runs against the judge. Voters mark "yes" to retain or "no" to remove.

Candidate information

  • Name: John D. Luthy
  • Office: Utah Court of Appeals judge
  • Race: Retain Luthy? (nonpartisan retention vote, Nov. 3)
  • Ballot status: Certified for the ballot
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in political science and government, magna cum laude, Utah State University, 1996; juris doctor, cum laude, J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, 2000

Experience and public service

Luthy clerked for three Utah judges. He served as a judicial law clerk for Utah Court of Appeals Judge Gregory K. Orme from 2000 to 2002, according to BallotReady profile data. He then clerked for Utah Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Howe in 2002 and Court of Appeals Judge Russell W. Bench in 2003.

He worked as an attorney at Suitter Axland from 2003 to 2006 before moving to the University of South Carolina, where he served as an instructor of legal writing from 2006 to 2014.

Luthy returned to Utah and practiced at Peck Hadfield Baxter & Moore from 2014 to 2019. He then served as chief civil deputy county attorney for Cache County from 2019 to 2021 and as Cache County attorney from 2021 to 2022, according to BallotReady.

Luthy served as president of the Cache County Bar Association and as an adjunct professor at Utah State University, according to his Utah Courts biography. He also worked as an adjunct instructor at the U.S. Department of Justice National Advocacy Center and as an executive committee member of the Utah State Bar's Appellate Practice Section.

This profile was built from publicly available records, including the Utah Courts official biography and BallotReady election data.