Are there really only three female “power players” in Utah? The answer is no. Powerful women are absent from lists like this because journalists like Gehrke omit them.
If we look more deeply, there are just as many influential female as male “power players” in Utah. Three immediate names that come to mind are former Chief Justice Christine Durham, state Rep. Patrice Arent and Kristin Cox.
As Supreme Court justice for 35 years, Durham wrote groundbreaking opinions, affecting the lives of all Utahns. She has achieved almost RBG status in the legal world. Our current chief justice states she did “more for the state’s judiciary than anyone who has ever served in it.