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Judge Shauna Graves Robinson tells Utah senators to consider the poor and disenfranchised as session opens
Summary
At the Utah Senate’s opening session, Judge Shauna Graves Robinson delivered a Martin Luther King Jr. Commission keynote urging lawmakers to craft laws that help disadvantaged children and to support alternatives in the justice system; lawmakers and committee chairs flagged education proposals aimed at struggling schools.
Salt Lake City — Judge Shauna Graves Robinson, presiding judge of the Salt Lake County Justice Court, told members of the Utah State Senate on opening day that her life exemplifies Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream and urged them to consider how legislation will affect the state’s poorest and most disenfranchised residents.
"I am the realization of the dream," Robinson said, recounting how community mentors and public programs helped her become the judge she is today. She asked senators to ask themselves "how will the decisions I make today affect the poor, the disenfranchised,…
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