Richard E. Mrazik took the Third District Court bench in 2018. He previously practiced litigation at Parsons Behle & Latimer and served with AmeriCorps at Salt Lake City's Fourth Street Clinic. He studied sociology and biology at Bowdoin College and law at the University of Utah. Governor Gary Herbert appointed Mrazik to the Third District Court in April 2018, and he took the bench that June. The court's biography says he was a shareholder in Parsons Behle & Latimer's litigation department, served on the Utah Bar Foundation's board from 2013 to 2019, sits on the Judicial Council committee on resources for self-represented parties and serves on the board of the Utah Avalanche Center.