Ted Stewart
| Ted Stewart | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah | |
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Assumed office September 1, 2014 |
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| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah | |
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In office 2011–2014 |
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| Preceded by | Tena Campbell |
| Succeeded by | David Nuffer |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah | |
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In office November 11, 1999 – September 1, 2014 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | John Thomas Greene, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | vacant |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1948 (age 68–69) Logan, Utah, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Utah State University S.J. Quinney College of Law |
Brian Theadore "Ted" Stewart (born 1948) is a Senior United States district judge sitting on the United States District Court for the District of Utah.
Born in Logan, Utah, Judge Stewart received a B.S. from Utah State University in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.
From 1974 until 1980, Stewart worked in private legal practice in Salt Lake City. He then served as an assistant to Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch in 1980, and then worked as an administrative assistant to U.S. Rep. James V. Hansen from 1981 until 1985. From 1985 until 1992, Stewart was a commissioner on the Public Service Commission of Utah. From 1993 until 1998, Stewart served as the executive director of Utah's Department of Natural Resources.
From 1998 until becoming a federal judge in 1999, Stewart served as a chief of staff to then-Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt.
In mid-1999, President Bill Clinton nominated Stewart to federal district court to fill a seat vacated by Judge J. Thomas Greene, who had taken senior status in November 1997. Clinton, a Democrat, nominated Stewart, a Republican, because Stewart was a friend of Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, and Hatch at that time was the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Clinton did so as a courtesy to Hatch, hoping the gesture would encourage Republican senators to act to confirm many of the president's languishing judicial nominees.
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