Famous Mormon Lawyers and Judges

Lawrence J. Block

U.S. Court of Federal Claims

In 1987, Judge Block was awarded the Attorney General's Special Achievement Award for an article entitled "A New Look At Plurality Decisions", which was published in March of 1988.

From 1994-2002, Judge Block served as Senior Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he worked on a number of significant issues including property rights legislation, punitive damages and class action court reform bills, the cost-benefit analysis regulatory reform act, tobacco policy, litigation and arbitration policy, and First Amendment, privacy and attendant constitutional issues arising out of high technology legislation and governmental programs.

Jay S. Bybee
US Court of Appeals
ninth circuit

He earned his J.D., cum laude, from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. President Bush nominated him for the court of appeals in 2003. The senate approved his nomination with a 74-19 vote. Critics labeled him an extremist who takes an overly limited view of federal power vis-à-vis the states and an overly narrow view of individual rights, particularly with regard to abortion.
Source: Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee Confirmed as Ninth Circuit Judge by Kenneth Ofgang, Metropolitan News, 14 Mar 2003

Jay S. Bybee named to ninth circuit court by Page Johnson, Meridian Magazine, 08 Jul 2003

David G. Campbell

U.S. District Court for Arizona

Campbell filled a mission in the England Birmingham Mission. He is a former Bishop and is serving in his Stake Presidency.

Sherman Christensen

Utah District

President Eisenhower nominated Sherman Christensen for the Utah District in 1954

Robert Clive Jones

U.S. District Court for Nevada

Kent A. Jordan

U.S. District Court for Delaware

Jordan was nominated to a vacancy on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware by President George W. Bush on July 25, 2002 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on ,November 14, 2002 by. Bush nominated Jordan to the Third Circuit on June 28, 2006 .Jordan is the sixth judge appointed to the Third Circuit by Bush.

Photo: BYU

Rex Lee
(1935-1996)
US Solicitor General

During Reagan's first term, he argued 30 cases before the Supreme court as solicitor general. He also argued 59 cases as a private attorney. He accepted the presidency of BYU on one condition: that he could still argue in his spare time! Well, he found enough time to do so on nine occasions while he was president of BYU.

Arizona Legislature

Michael W. Mosman

U.S. District Court for Oregon

Levi Stewart Udall

Levi Stewart Udall January 20, 1891 - May 30, 1960 was a Lawyer who served as Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court .

In 1946 he was elected to the Arizona Supreme Court, and remained a Justice of that court from 1947 until his death. From 1951-52 and 1957-58 he served as the Chief Justice of that court.

In 1960 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Arizona. He died on May 30th of that year.