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Judges on the Utah ballot in November 2026
Utah voters see 1 retention question on the November 3, 2026 ballot in the races The Ballot Brief tracks. Retention questions are a yes-or-no vote on keeping a sitting judge; elected seats work like any other race.
Judicial retention votes: yes or no on keeping a judge
Utah Supreme Court
Jill M. Pohlman
Retention: yes or no
Pohlman earned her law degree from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, clerked for a U.S. District Judge, and worked as a partner at Stoel Rives LLP for 19 years before serving as Associate Presiding Judge on the Utah Court of Appeals, per the court's official biography. Governor Spencer J. Cox appointed her to the Supreme Court in June 2022.
What a yes vote does: keeps the judge for another term; a no vote removes the judge at the end of the term.
How retention votes work
Utah Supreme Court justices and Court of Appeals judges are appointed by the governor from a nominating commission's list, confirmed by the state Senate, and then stand periodically in nonpartisan, uncontested retention elections; Supreme Court justices are retained every 10 years and Court of Appeals judges every 6 years, each needing a majority yes vote. The Utah Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission reviews and publishes a recommendation on each judge standing for retention before the election.
Source: utcourts.gov, as of 2026-09-15.
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