Cristina P. Ortega
Second District Court Judge
Judicial background
Second District Court Judge
Background
Cristina P. Ortega took the Second District Court bench in 2021. She previously prosecuted cases for Salt Lake and Davis counties and served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Utah. She studied criminal justice at Weber State University and earned a law degree at the University of Utah. Governor Spencer Cox appointed Ortega to the Second District Court in February 2021, and she took the bench that March. The court's biography says she prosecuted sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse cases at the Davis County Attorney's Office and later coordinated Project Safe Childhood, the federal child exploitation program, at the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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