The Kane County Judicial Nominating Commission has announced the appointment of Judge Ronald Read to fill the Orderville Justice Court vacancy.

Ronald L. Read graduated from Southern Utah State College in 1981 and the University of Utah Law School in 1990. Mr. Read served as a Law Clerk for the United States District Court in Boise Idaho. After this he was an associate and shareholder with Hughes & Read, the Deputy/Assistant City Attorney for the City of St. George, a co-founder of Read & Wright and then Read & Wright Naegle & Jensen, and is currently a Justice Court Judge for Washington County, Utah.