Michael J. Wilkins

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Michael J. Wilkins
Associate Chief Justice Michael J. Wilkins
Associate Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court
Incumbent
Assumed office  January 2000
Appointed by	Michael Leavitt
Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals
In office August 1994 – January 2000
Born	1948 Salt Lake City, Utah
Spouse	Judge Diane W. Wilkins
Alma mater	University Of Utah College Of Law, 1977 and University of Virginia Law School, 2001

Michael J. Wilkins is a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court.

He was appointed in 2000. He was previously appointed to the Utah Court of Appeals in August 1994 and served there until his appointment to the Supreme Court. He is Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and a past presiding judge of the Court of Appeals. He received his law degree from the University Of Utah College Of Law in 1977 and an advanced law degree (LL.M.) in 2001 from the University of Virginia School of Law. From 1977 to 1994, he was engaged in private law practice in Salt Lake City.

Justice Wilkins has been a member of the Judicial Council and has served as chair of the Judicial Council's Policy and Planning Committee, Legislative Liaison Committee, and Standing Committee on Technology. He currently chairs the Supreme Court's Committee on Professionalism, and teaches as an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School.