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Show GLttiAM' NAMED TO SUPREMb COURT Christine M. Durham, 36 the presiding judge in the Third Judicial District, was named to the Utah Supreme Court today by Governor Scott M. Matheson. She fills the seat left vacant by the late Justice Richard Maughan. Judge Durham has been on the bench in the Third District Dis-trict since 1978. She previously pre-viously practiced law for four years in the firm of Johnson, Durham & Moxley and served as an adjunct professor of the J. Reuben Clark LawSchool at Brigham Young University. She has also taught legal medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Utah Medical Center and at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham. Judge Durham studied philosophy and religion at Wellesley College, graduating graduat-ing wih high honors in 1967 and took her law degree from Duke University in 1971. She also attended Boston College Law School and A rizona State - University College of Law. Judge Durham is a member of the Utah Bar Association, the Salt Lake County Bar Association and the American Bar Association. As-sociation. She has been pres -idem, of the Utah District Judges Association for the 1980-81 term and is included in "Who's Who in American Women." She is married to George Homer Durham, II,M.D. They have four chldren. Said Governor Matheson in making this appointment, "Justice Durham has distinguished dis-tinguished herself as an excellent ex-cellent attorney and judge. She possesses an extraordinary ex-traordinary legal intellect. I make this appointment with a great deal of confidence in her ' ability to serve the people of Utah on the State SuDreme Court." |