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Female judges reflect change in attitudes

What the 4th District Bench really needs is a first class BUSINESS attorney who has made partner at a top notch firm and has substantial experience litigating business matters. Criminal experience is not business experience. Gender doesn't matter, but experience does.

I agree with "Anonymous" that attorneys appointed to the Fourth District Bench should be experienced, but very few attorneys appointed to be district court judges have experience in all matters they will be asked to handle. Besides being experienced in a particular field or several fields of law, I believe an attorney appointed to be a district court judge should be able to learn quickly, be decisive, and objectively listen to all sides of a matter before making a decision. A judicial appointee also should be committed to following the law, even though the resulting decision might be unpopular.

We'll know women have arrived in the legal profession, in Utah, when the Utah State Bar Directory stops its current practice of listing all the males with a certain last name before any of the females with that last name. Currently, each attorney is listed as Mr. or Ms., so that the alphabetical listing for someone named Anna Smith ("Smith, Ms. Anna") would not appear until after each and every Mr. Smith, be it Adam, John, Martin, or Wursten.