Blake Hills
Chair, Board of Pardons and Parole
Government service
Chair, Board of Pardons and Parole
Board leadership
Blake Hills became chair of Utah's Board of Pardons and Parole in October 2025. Governor Spencer Cox had first appointed him to the board in March 2021, according to the governor's cabinet biography. [1]
Court and prosecution experience
After law school, Hills spent about two years as an appellate clerk for the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals. He then worked for roughly 21 years as a prosecutor in the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office and Summit County Attorney's Office, focusing much of that work on homicide, special-victim and domestic-violence cases. [1]
Education
Hills earned a bachelor's degree in economics and geography from Weber State University and a law degree from the University of Utah. [1]
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