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Ted Stewart
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Born in Logan, Utah, Judge Stewart received a Bachelor of Surgery from Utah State University in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. From 1974 until 1980, Stewart worked in private legal practice in Salt Lake City. He then served as an assistant to Utah Senator.
Orrin Hatch in 1980, and then worked as an administrative assistant to United States. Republican
James V. Hansen from 1981 until 1985. From 1985 until 1992, Stewart was a commissioner on the Public Service Commission of Utah.
From 1993 until 1998, Stewart served as the executive director of Utah"s Department of Natural Resources. From 1998 until becoming a federal judge in 1999, Stewart served as a chief of staff to then-Utah Government.
Mike Leavitt.
In mid-1999, President Bill Clinton nominated Stewart to federal district court to fill a seat vacated by Judge J. Thomas Greene, who had taken senior status in November 1997.
Clinton did so as a courtesy to Hatch, hoping the gesture would encourage Republican senators to act to confirm many of the president"s languishing judicial nominees. However, Hatch demanded that Stewart be confirmed before senators could consider other judicial nominees. That enraged Senate Democrats, who refused to allow for a vote on Stewart.
That prompted Republican senators to take the very rare move of filing for cloture on the nomination of a federal district judge.
On September 21, 1999, Democrats unified to successfully filibuster Stewart"s nomination, in a 55-44 party-line vote on the Senate floor that may well have been the only successful filibuster ever on a federal district court nominee. Two weeks later, Democratic and Republican senators announced a deal that paved the way for votes on the nominations of Stewart and two other judicial nominees.
On October 5, 1999, the Senate vote 93-5 to confirm Stewart. Stewart received his judicial commission on November 11, 1999.
Stewart made the initial ruling in favor of the terms-of sale restrictions on the easement in the Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) plaza by the Salt Lake Temple.
He served as Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah from 2011 to 2014. He assumed senior status on September 1, 2014.
