Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen resigns amid conduct probe
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TO Utah Supreme Court justice has resigned amid a probe into an alleged relationship with an lawyer who labored on a redistricting lawsuit.
Justice Diana Hagen appeared to reference the investigation and the toll it has taken on her family members in a resignation letter to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, which was obtained by Fox News Digital.
“As a public servant for twenty-six years, I am keenly aware that public service requires sacrifice,” Hagen wrote. “I have willingly accepted those sacrifices for the privilege of holding a position of public trust, where I could do my part to uphold the rule of law and protect the constitutional rights of each Utahn.”
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Justice Diana Hagen is pictured in a courtroom of the Utah State Courts. (Utah State Courts)
“I also understand that public officials are rightly held to a higher standard and must accept a greater degree of public scrutiny and diminished privacy,” she stated. “But my family and friends did not choose public life. They do not deserve to have intensely personal details surrounding the painful dissolution of my thirty-year marriage subjected to public scrutiny.”
The resignation was efficient instantly, a spokesperson for Utah’s Administrative Office of the Courts stated.
Hagen was accused by her former husband of sending “inappropriate” textual content messages to an lawyer who helped challenge a Republican-friendly map that maintained 4 purple congressional seats in Utah. David Reymann, who labored on behalf of progressive voting rights teams within the case, was named because the lawyer in a grievance that an lawyer for Hagen’s husband submitted to Chief Justice Matthew Durrant and the Judicial Conduct Commission, in line with native outlet KSL.
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Hagen and Reymann beforehand denied the allegations.
The Judicial Conduct Commission—described on its web site as an impartial physique comprising a number of state legislators, judges, and members of the general public—carried out a preliminary investigation based mostly on the grievance and selected to not pursue the matter additional, KSL reported.
An announcement issued by the Utah Supreme Court on behalf of Hagen in April stated she took “prompt, prudent, and transparent steps” in response to the allegations by her ex-husband.
“My final involvement within the redistricting case was October 2024,” Hagen stated. “I voluntarily recused myself from all cases involving Mr. Reymann in May 2025, and my recusal was reflected in the Court’s September 15, 2025, opinion in League of Women Voters.”
In her resignation letter, Hagen acknowledged that she would like to proceed serving on the bench.
The Scott M. Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah, homes the Utah Supreme Court and numerous decrease courts. (Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group)
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“But I cannot do so without sacrificing the privacy and well-being of those I care about and the effective functioning and independence of Utah’s judiciary,” she wrote.
Cox can be tasked with naming Hagen’s substitute. Fox News Digital has reached out to the governor’s workplace.
Fox News Digital’s Ashley Oliver contributed to this report.
