Hon. Catherine Conklin serves as a Judge of the Utah Second District Court. She was appointed to the District Court bench by Governor Spencer Cox in 2025 after serving for nearly 18 years as a Domestic Relations Commissioner in the Second District. Judge Conklin graduated magna cum laude from Weber State University in 1991 and earned her law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1996. She began her legal career as a solo practitioner and later became a partner with Farr Kaufman in Ogden before being appointed as a Domestic Relations Commissioner in 2007. Throughout her judicial career, Judge Conklin has been deeply involved in Utah family law. She served as the commissioner representative on the Utah Board of District Court Judges and was a founding editor-in-chief of the Utah Journal of Family Law. Judge Conklin has been recognized for her contributions to the legal profession and community, including the Women Lawyers of Utah Mentoring Award in 2017, the University of Utah Distinguished Pro Bono Award in 2019, and the Weber County Bar Association Public Servant of the Year award in 2022.