Ryan D. Petersen
Fourth District Juvenile Court Judge
Judicial background
Fourth District Juvenile Court Judge
Background
Ryan D. Petersen was appointed to the Fourth District Juvenile Court in 2024. His earlier private practice included Ivie and Young, Blakelock and Petersen and MacArthur, Heder and Metler. He earned undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Utah and University of Tulsa. Governor Spencer Cox appointed Petersen to the Fourth District Juvenile Court in December 2024. The court's biography says he was sworn in to practice before the Muscogee (Creek) Nation court while in law school and later became a senior partner at MacArthur, Heder & Metler, which he joined in 2014.
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