Office | Office-holder |
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Governor | Spencer Cox |
Lieutenant Governor | Deidre Henderson |
Attorney General | Sean Reyes |
State Treasurer | David Damschen |
State Treasurer of Utah | |
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Incumbent Marlo Oaks since June 29, 2021 | |
Style | The Honorable |
Term length | Four years |
Inaugural holder | James Chipman 1896 |
His participation in the suit was criticized by the outgoing Utah Governor, Gary Herbert, and his successor, Lieutenant Governor and Governor-elect Spencer Cox. Utahns created a petition calling for Reyes's recall.
He won with 63.06 percent of the vote over his Democratic challenger, Charles A. Stormont, and Libertarian candidate Andrew McCullough.
In 2020, after the New York Attorney General sued the National Rifle Association, asserting that Wayne LaPierre and other NRA officials unlawfully misappropriated NRA funds for personal expenses and self-enrichment, Reyes joined Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge in filing an amicus brief challenging the New York suit. Reyes asserted that the New York AG was discriminating against the NRA.
Sean Reyes. Sean D. Reyes is an American lawyer and politician who has been the Attorney General of Utah since 2013. Appointed to the office by Governor Gary Herbert following the resignation of John Swallow, Reyes was subsequently reelected.
Voting began for the convention on April 23, with results being announced on April 27. Incumbent Sean Reyes and challenger David O. Leavitt advanced to the primary.
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He served as Chief Judge from February 12, 2013 until February 11, 2020 and remained on the bench until his confirmation as Attorney General. In addition to being a published author in the Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal, Attorney General Garland has taught as a professor at Harvard Law School, served as the president of the Board ...
Before becoming a federal judge, Attorney General Garland spent a substantial part of his professional life at the Department of Justice. He served in both career and non-career positions under five Attorneys General, including as Special Assistant to the Attorney General, Assistant United States Attorney, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division, and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General. In those roles, his responsibilities spanned the work of the Department, including criminal, civil, and national security matters. They also included direct supervision of investigations and prosecutions of national importance , including the Oklahoma City bombing, Unabomber, and Montana Freemen cases.
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The Attorney General of Utah is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the state government of Utah. The attorney general is the chief legal officer and legal adviser in the state. The office is elected, with a term of four years.
Sean David Reyes is an American lawyer and politician who has been the Attorney General of Utah since 2013. Appointed to the office by Governor Gary Herbert following the resignation of John Swallow, Reyes was subsequently reelected. Reyes is a member of the Republican Partyand has served as a county, state, and national delegate for the Republican Party and a member of …
Reyes was raised in the Los Angeles area. His father was an immigrant from the Philippines of both Filipino and Spanish descent. His mother was of Native Hawaiian and Japanese descent. He is a cousin of former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay.
Reyes earned his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1994. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 1997.
Reyes spent 14 years working at Utah's largest law firm, Parsons Behle & Latimer, where he became the first person of color to become a partner. He practiced commercial litigation and employment law. He later became general counsel for eTAGz, a Springville, Utah-based media and technology company that aimed to develop products for embedding digital files on packaging. He was also a partner and co-founder of the venture capital firm Accelerate Ventures, a state small cl…