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.

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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.

(Courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson and his wife, Wendy, are greeted by NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson at the NAACP's 110th annual national convention in Detroit on Sunday, July 21, 2019.

Michelle Quist: Time to apologize for church’s racist history

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

Protesters gather near the Minnesota Police 3rd Precinct during a gathering Tuesday, May 26, 2020, in response to the death the day before of George Floyd in police custody. Four Minneapolis officers involved in the arrest of Floyd, a black man who died in police custody, were fired Tuesday, hours after a bystander’s video showed an officer kneeling on the handcuffed man’s neck, even after he pleaded that he could not breathe and stopped moving. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)

Michelle Quist: It is time to realize we have a problem in this country

By Michelle Quist | May 27, 2020, 9:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Curtis Bramble, R-Provo, in the Senate Chamber, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020.

Michelle Quist: Male senators grandstand with intrusive abortion bill

By Michelle Quist | May 14, 2020, 2:56 a.m.