Daniel Burton serves as Chief Deputy Attorney General and General Counsel for the Office of the Utah Attorney General, the office’s senior executive position, and is responsible for overseeing its legal, legislative, administrative, and communications functions under Attorney General Derek Brown.
In this role, Daniel advises the Attorney General on complex legal and policy questions, helps direct the office’s engagement with the Utah Legislature, manages executive operations, and shapes the strategic direction of the state’s most significant legal work. His portfolio spans a wide range of Utah’s priorities: the protection of children from exploitation and online harm, the defense of the state’s sovereign interests in federal public lands, consumer protection, digital privacy, antitrust enforcement, public safety, natural resources, and energy.
Before joining the Office in 2015, Daniel served as Senior Corporate Counsel at Woodbury Corporation, one of Utah’s largest commercial real estate and development companies. A Utah native, he graduated from Brigham Young University and earned his law degree from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. His wife, Brittany, also graduated from Brigham Young University, and they are the parents of three daughters.
