Five Nominees for the Fourth District Court Seat
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A screenshot of an April 13, 2025 hoodline.com article headlined "FIVE POTENTIAL NOMINEES VYING FOR FOURTH DISTRICT COURT VACANCY AHEAD OF JUDGE LUNNEN'S RETIREMENT IN UTAH". The article states that Judge Robert Lunnen's retirement was "set, effective August 1," and that the Fourth District Judicial Nominating Commission had narrowed the field to five candidates.
The five named in the text are Von Christiansen, County Attorney of Beaver County; Joshua Esplin, Assistant Director and Trial Attorney with the Utah County Public Defenders Association; Tony Graf, then serving dual roles as Deputy County Attorney for Davis County and volunteer judge pro tempore at Salt Lake City Justice Court; Samuel Pead, an Assistant United States Attorney; and Ryan Stack, a Deputy County Attorney and prosecuting attorney in Summit County. The capture carries a "asedsamParker" watermark from the account that circulated it.
Researchers filed this with the Trends captures because it fixes the public timeline of the judicial vacancy — announced January 2025, shortlisted April, appointed May, retirement effective August 1 — against which the search-interest charts for the two judges' names are being read. This is ordinary public-record material about a routine appointment process, and nothing here suggests otherwise. See Judge Robert Lunnen, judges, and judges Graf and Lunnen searches.
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