Laura Scott was appointed to the Third District Court in 2014. Before joining the bench, she practiced commercial and real-estate litigation as a shareholder at Parsons Behle & Latimer. She earned undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Utah and Arizona State University. Utah Courts' biography describes Scott as a Third District Court judge appointed in 2014 who hears a civil calendar and serves as a water judge. She has served on the Utah Supreme Court's ethics advisory committee and as vice chair of its ethics and discipline committee, and she is a past president of the Salt Lake County Bar Association. The page lists a Utah State Bar Professionalism Award and a 2022 Judge of the Year award.
Utah is spending about $120 million this year on private-school and homeschool scholarships while the Utah Supreme Court weighs a ruling that the program is unconstitutional.
