Utah Attorney Wendy Lewis Biography, Wiki, Age

Wendy Lewis Biography – Wendy Lewis Wiki

Wendy Lewis is a Utah criminal defense attorney. She is a partner at Nester Lewis PLLC, a law firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is well-known for working on many high-profile and complex cases including State of Utah v. Valentino Colorow, State of Utah v. John Blanchard, and United States v. Brian David Mitchell.

Wendy graduated from the University of Utah College of Law in 1991, where she was a William H. Leary Scholar and a member and editor of the Utah Law Review. Upon graduation, she moved to Denver, Colorado, where she clerked for the Honorable Robert H. MacWilliams of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. While clerking for Judge MacWilliams, she worked on both Federal civil and criminal cases of all varieties.

In 1992, Wendy returned to Utah and worked as an associate for a private law firm where she handled complex criminal cases, and a variety of civil matters, including personal injury, domestic and contract law. Wendy took numerous state and federal cases to trial while in private practice, including homicide and fraud cases, and achieved a number of acquittals for her clients. Wendy also argued matters before the Utah Court of Appeals, the Utah Supreme Court and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

In 1997 Wendy returned to clerking and spent the following three and a half years as a law clerk to the Honorable Dale A. Kimball, Federal District Judge for the District of Utah. She again worked on cases in all areas of the law and became familiar with the inner workings of the federal bench in Utah.

In January 2001, Wendy became an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Utah, where she spent the next 21 years representing indigent defendants in Federal Court.

Wendy served as the representative of the Utah Federal Public Defender’s Office in the District of Utah’s Tribal Reentry Court, where she traveled to tribal lands and worked with members of the tribal nations on successfully reentering society following federal convictions. For the past nine years, Wendy served as a senior-level supervisor in the FPD office and was assigned responsibility for case assignment, hiring and diversity recruitment efforts.

Wendy is active in the Federal Bar Association, the Utah Women Lawyers Association, and the Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She also serves as a mentor to law students and has worked as a volunteer in educational institutions. In 2022, Wendy joined her good friend and former colleague, Kathryn N. Nester, to start Nester Lewis PLLC. Wendy is licensed to practice in Utah federal and state courts and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Wendy Lewis Age

Attorney Wendy M. Lewis was born in 1969 in Utah.

Kouri Richins Defense Attorney

Utah criminal defense attorney Wendy Lewis is representing Kouri Richins, who wrote a children’s book about grief and is now facing an aggravated murder charge after she was accused of killing her husband, Eric Richins, with a lethal dose of fentanyl, according to press reports. She also faces charges of attempted criminal homicide, two counts of false or fraudulent insurance claim, and forgery.