16 Facts About Mark Shurtleff

Mark Leonard Shurtleff was born on August 9,1957 and is an American attorney, former three-term Utah Attorney General, and founder of the Shurtleff Law Firm and the Shurtleff Group.

Mark Shurtleff was a partner in the Washington, DC office of the law firm Troutman Sanders and served as a Salt Lake County Commissioner prior to being elected as Attorney General of the state of Utah.

Mark Shurtleff served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Peru.

Mark Shurtleff served four years in the United States Navy as a Judge Advocate General Corps.

Mark Shurtleff was the Deputy County Attorney and a Commissioner of Salt Lake County and later became an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Utah.

Mark Shurtleff was elected Attorney General in November 2000, and re-elected in 2004 and 2008.

Mark Shurtleff is the first Attorney General in Utah to win re-election for a third term.

In May 2007, Mark Shurtleff testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee as a Republican in support of the Constitutionality of granting full representation in Congress for residents of Washington DC.

That year Mark Shurtleff co-founded the Utah Meth Cops Project and raised money to provide detoxification treatment to police officers.

On May 12,2009, Mark Shurtleff disclosed, via a Twitter message, that he planned to enter the 2010 Republican primary.

On November 4,2009, Mark Shurtleff ended his campaign for US Senate in order to spend more time with his daughter, who was experiencing health problems.

In September 2010, Shurtleff testified before the House Judiciary Committee in support of the Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness Act, an act that seeks to reverse the effects of Granholm v Heald, a 2005 US Supreme Court case that ruled unconstitutional state laws that permitted in-state wineries to ship wine directly to consumers, but prohibited out-of-state wineries from doing the same.

In February 2013, Mark Shurtleff spoke on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on "The Role of State Attorneys General in Enforcing Federal Law" to Congressional staffers at the Civil Justice Caucus Academy run by George Mason University School of Law.

Mark Shurtleff is an Eagle Scout and is fluent in Spanish.

Mark Shurtleff was honored by the Boys and Girls Clubs with their 2012 Living Legacy Award.

In July 2016 the state criminal charges against Mark Shurtleff were dismissed on a motion by the state.