Judge Denise Lindberg
Denise Posse-Blanco Lindberg and her family left Cuba as refugees in 1960, eventually settling in New York in 1963.Judge Lindberg received her bachelors' degree from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah in 1970. By 1980 she had completed masters' and doctoral degrees at the University of Utah, and worked in various areas of Utah State government. In 1988 she earned her J.D. degree magna cum laude from BYU's J.Reuben Clark Law School, placing second in her class. She was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as Articles Editor for the BYU law review.
Following law school Judge Lindberg clerked for the Honorable Monroe G. McKay, at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit (1988-89), and for the Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor, at the United States Supreme Court (1990-91). She practiced appellate and healthcare law in Washington, DC until 1994 when she returned to Salt Lake City as in-house General Counsel for a national healthcare company.
In 1998 she was appointed to the Third Judicial District Court bench by then-Governor (now U.S. Dep't of Health and Human Services Secretary) Michael O. Leavitt. In addition to her judicial duties, Judge Lindberg chairs the Utah Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on Criminal Jury Instructions and is the judicial representative to the Utah State Bar's Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee. She is a member of the American Law Institute, and serves as an adviser to ALI's Model Penal Code: Criminal Sentencing Reform Project. Judge Lindberg is also a Master of the Bench with the American Inns of Court."