James T. Blanch
Third District Court Judge
Judicial background
Third District Court Judge
Background
James T. Blanch was appointed to the Third District Court in 2012. He previously practiced trial and appellate civil litigation at Parsons Behle & Latimer. He earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and a law degree at Harvard. Governor Gary Herbert appointed Blanch to the Third District Court in August 2012. The court's biography says he practiced at Parsons Behle & Latimer from 1993 until then, has served on the Utah Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure since 1999, was one of the original members of the Utah Pro Bono Commission and teaches as an adjunct at the University of Utah law school. He is a past president of the Salt Lake County Bar Association.
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