Josh Cutler is the Section Director of the Federalism and Strategic Litigation Section within the Office’s Appellate Department. In this role, he leads the Office’s efforts to protect Utah’s sovereignty and advance Utah’s interests in federalism and related matters, including multistate litigation. Together with his team, Josh oversees litigation involving the balance of state and federal authority, coordinates multistate and amicus efforts with attorney’s generals’ offices across the country, and represents Utah in high-stakes cases with statewide and national significance.
Before joining the Office of the Utah Attorney General, Josh practiced appellate and complex civil litigation at a leading national firm as well as at two well-respected local firms, where he represented clients in all phases of trial litigation and on appeal. Earlier in his career, Josh served as law clerk, and then in a chief of staff role, to Chief Justice Matthew Durrant of the Utah Supreme Court.
Josh received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School in 2017. He was elected to the Order of the Coif, served as Lead Note Editor of the BYU Law Review, and was an Academic Success Program Dean’s Fellow. While in law school, Josh worked as a law clerk for the Office of General Counsel at Brigham Young University and for the Office of U.S. Senator Mike Lee, and as a judicial intern to Judge Dale A. Kimball of the United States District Court for the District of Utah.
Josh and his wife, Taylor, have three children and live in Highland.
