Background
Shurtleff, Mark L. was born on August 9, 1957 in Salt Lake City.
Shurtleff, Mark L. was born on August 9, 1957 in Salt Lake City.
Shurtleff attended Brighton High School (Cottonwood Heights, Utah), Brigham Young University, University of Utah College of Law, and University of San Diego School of Law.
He served four years in the United States Navy as a Judge Advocate General Corps (Judge Advocate General). Shurtleff was the Deputy County Attorney and a Commissioner of Salt Lake County and later became an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Utah. Shurtleff was elected Attorney General in November 2000, and re-elected in 2004 and 2008.
As Attorney General, Shurtleff issued an official legal opinion stating that under a second law (HB174), private school vouchers would still be funded even if voters rejected the primary voucher bill (HB 148) in a November referendum.
In May 2007, Shurtleff testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee as a Republican in support of the Constitutionality of granting full representation in Congress for residents of Washington District of Columbia. That year Shurtleff co-founded the Utah Meth Cops Project and raised money to provide detoxification treatment to police officers. On May 12, 2009, Shurtleff disclosed, via a Twitter message, that he planned to enter the 2010 Republican primary.
That year, he co-founded the Utah Pharmaceutical Drug Crime Project, an unprecedented multi-agency, multi-disciplinary task force to combat the serious problem of prescription drug abuse. Partners included the Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Utah Departments of Public Safety and Human Services, and the Salt Lake City Police Department.
In September 2010, Shurtleff testified before the House Judiciary Committee in support of the Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness Acting, an act that seeks to reverse the effects of Granholm v.
Heald, a 2005 United States. Supreme Court case that ruled unconstitutional state laws that permitted in-state wineries to ship wine directly to consumers, but prohibited out-of-state wineries from doing the same. Shurtleff"s remarks were drafted by the general counsel of the National Beer Wholesalers Association. In April 2013, Shurtleff testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in support of comprehensive immigration reform during the Hearing on the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Acting, South.744
In February, 2013, Mark Shurtleff spoke on Capitol Hill in Washington District of Columbia on "The Role of State Attorneys General in Enforcing Federal Law" to Congressional staffers at the Civil Justice Caucus Academy run by George Mason University School of Law
In 2008 several articles from local news sources accused Shurtleff of corruption and bribery regarding his prosecutorial decisions.
These allegations were investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation but the United States Department of Justice took no action.
In 2014 the Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill filed 10 felony charges against Shurtleff.
Honorary chair Utah Mentor Network. Board directors Utah Citizens Against Pornography, America-Israel Friendship League, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Association, Washington Legal Foundation.
Married M'Liss Shurtleff. 5 children.