Michelle Quist

Columnist

Michelle attended undergraduate and law school at Brigham Young University. She worked at a large law firm in New York City after school before starting her family. She was a clerk on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and dean of admissions at BYU Law School before entering private practice as an appellate attorney. She has seven children.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sue Robbins during a hearing on HB302, a controversial bill on transgender athletics, by the Senate Health and Human Services Standing Committee at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021.

Michelle Quist: Plan to ban transgender girls comes from fear and misinformation

By Michelle Quist | February 25, 2021, 5:02 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Carl Moore founder of PANDOS and SLC Air Protectors, talks to the crowd, as he joins Black Lives Matter and other groups, to protest the way the health department has been forcing people experiencing homelessness to move in the middle of a pandemic and the coldest time of the year, in front of the Salt Lake Public Health Center on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020.

Michelle Quist: It’s time to start acknowledging that racial discrimination happens, every day.

By Michelle Quist | February 11, 2021, 5:30 p.m.

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This Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, photo, supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment as they rally at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City.

Michelle Quist: Why Utahns should care about the ERA

By Michelle Quist | January 28, 2021, 5:00 p.m.

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The House Chamber is empty after a hasty evacuation as rioters tried to break into the chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.

Michelle Quist: Utah will be less credible in Washington after Jan. 6 uprising

By Michelle Quist | January 15, 2021, 6:55 p.m.

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In this Dec. 21 photo, Tessa Boulton, left, takes a swab test from Michael Kruse, dressed as Santa Claus, at a coronavirus testing center at the Helios Clinic in Schwerin, Germany.

Michelle Quist: We have all been naughty and nice this year

By Michelle Quist | December 23, 2020, 11:33 p.m.

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This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia.

Michelle Quist: Gratitude and some uncomfortable self-reflection

By Michelle Quist | December 10, 2020, 1:00 p.m.

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In this Nov. 6 photo, a canvas observer photographs Lehigh County provisional ballots as vote counting in the general election continues in Allentown, Pa. President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a number of lawsuits across six battleground states this month as he tried to upend the 2020 election. Judges uniformly rejected his claims of vote fraud. The latest case ended Saturday, Nov. 21, when a federal judge in Pennsylvania said Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani presented only ‘speculative accusations’ that brought to mind ‘Frankenstein’s Monster.'

Michelle Quist: Trump’s lawsuits have nothing to back them up

By Michelle Quist | November 25, 2020, 9:40 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Deidre Henderson, R-Spanish Fork, makes a few remarks alongside Lt. Gov Spencer Cox, as they hold a press conference at the Utah Capitol on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, following their win in the Republican primary race for Utah governor over former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.

Michelle Quist: Both parties have a Republican women problem

By Michelle Quist | November 12, 2020, 1:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Glenda Woodring, who teaches 4th grade at Jackson Elementary, sees her first day of school online cut short due to the wind storm on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, that left many of hers students unable to log in due to power outages.

Michelle Quist: We are creating computer zombies who hate school

By Michelle Quist | October 28, 2020, 10:09 p.m.

(Screengrab from PSA) Utah's major party candidates for governor — Republican Spencer Cox and Democrat Chris Peterson — released three public service announcements on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020 to encourage the public to accept the results, regardless of the outcome, in the presidential race.

Michelle Quist: Utah isn’t innocent when it comes to civility in politics

By Michelle Quist | October 22, 2020, 1:53 a.m.