New judge appointed for local justice court

Judge Eric S. Jewell was appointed as the judge of the Springville/Mapleton Justice Court in January 2023. He replaced Judge Sherlynn Fenstermaker, who retired in December 2022 after decades of service to the cities of Springville and Mapleton.

Judge Jewell also serves as the judge in the Payson, Santaquin, Genola and Goshen Justice Courts. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He then attended law school and earned a juris doctor degree in 2009 from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Following graduation, Judge Jewell was admitted to the Virginia Bar, where he worked as a prosecutor in the Gloucester County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office. In 2012, he was admitted to the Utah Bar and accepted the position as city prosecutor for Payson and Mapleton, where he served until his appointment to the bench in 2021.