SANDI JOHNSON portrait
  • Adjunct Professor, College Of Law - Dean
  • Adjunct Professor, College Of Law

Biography

Sandi Johnson is a Deputy District Attorney with the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office.    She began her career prosecuting cases in Juvenile and Justice Courts.  In District Court she prosecuted organized gang cases for seven years and for the last three years has been assigned to prosecute cases for the Special Victims Unit.  Over the last ten years she created and led the Major Crash Team, which prosecutes all criminal deaths involving automobiles in Salt Lake County.  She is a member of the Board for the Utah Office for Victims of Crime as well as the Salt Lake Valley Emergency Fund.  She is a member of the Criminal Model Jury Instructions Committee.  She has served as a faculty member for the Utah Prosecution Council teaching the Basic Prosecutor Course.   She received her J.D. in 2002 from the University of Utah College of Law.  She graduated from the University of Utah in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a certificate in Criminology.