People need to see that their dream is possible. People need to see someone that looks like them doing the thing they want to do. Then, it becomes possible.
The Utah legal community, including the bench, is currently lacking in membership. And I say that as an elected bar commissioner for the Third District (my three-year term will expire this summer). We’re lacking diversity, even after years worth of trendy diversity initiatives. The change is happening too slowly.
In 2011 the Utah Bar was 91 percent Caucasian and 76 percent male. Today, female membership still sits around 25 percent, and there are fewer female law students attending Utah schools compared with the nation’s average.