Education
University of Utah.
University of Utah.
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Campbell received a Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Utah in 1976 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Utah College of Law in 1979. Campbell served as a law clerk to Honorary J. Clifford Wallace, United States. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1979 to 1980, and to Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States for the 1982 Term.
He worked in private practice in the interim year, and returned to private practice in 1982, working most notably with Osborn Maledon in Phoenix, Arizona.
Outside of formal legal practice, Campbell served as an adjunct professor of law at the Arizona State University College of Law, and as a visiting professor of law at Brigham Young University Law School, where he was named professor of the year in 1990. Campbell is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Campbell was nominated by President George West. Bush on March 13, 2003, to a new seat created by 116 Statistics 1758. He was confirmed by the United States Senate, by vote of 92-0, on July 8, 2003.
He received his commission on July 15, 2003.