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    Erik Christiansen

    Erik Christiansen
    District 17 (2024 – 2027)
    Parsons Behle & Latimer in Salt Lake City, Utah.
    S.J. Quinney College of Law, J.D. 1990

    Erik A. Christiansen is a Shareholder with Parsons Behle & Latimer in Salt Lake City, Utah. He served as the President of the Utah State Bar from 2023-24.  He has served as a Utah State Bar Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates, and on the House Select Committee. He has served on the ABA Standing Committee on Membership, the ABA’s Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fundraising Committee, and as the ABA Utah State Membership Chair. He has served as Team Editor of the ABA’s Litigation News, and previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of Coverage, published by the ABA’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, from 2007 to 2015. In 2020, Mr. Christiansen started the Utah expansion of the ABA Litigation Section’s Judicial Intern Opportunity Program (JIOP) and has served as the Regional Director of the Utah JIOP. He has served as a member of the ABA Litigation Section’s Membership & Marketing Committee. He has served as Chair of the Utah State Bar Litigation Section, Chair of the Utah State Bar Securities Section, and Chair of the Utah State chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Mr. Christiansen is a Sustaining Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

    Mr. Christiansen volunteered with the ABA Immigration Justice Project, working at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in 2019 to assist with the screening of individuals seeking asylum in the United States. Mr. Christiansen is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, where he has taught for ten years teaching Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Procuring and Managing Legal Services, and coaching the UCLA Transactional Law Competition team. He was named Alumnus of the Year in 2019 by the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.

    Mr. Christiansen was Chair of the Utah State Securities Commission from 2009 to 2017, having been appointed by two different Utah Governors and confirmed twice by the Utah Senate.  He is married to Christina Jepson, who also is an accomplished lawyer, and they share four daughters. Mr. Christiansen and Ms. Jepson enjoy yoga, music, and traveling around the world.