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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Gayle F. McKeachnie |
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Vernal, Utah , United States |
| Email | None |
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January 26, 1943
(81 years)
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| Info | Elected to the Utah House of Representatives from the 68th District in 1978 and 1980.
Elected to the Utah House of Representatives from the 56th District in 1982 and 1984.
Gayle F. Mckeachnie is a member of the law firm of McKeachnie, Allred, McClellan & Trotter, P.C. with offices in Vernal and Roosevelt, Utah. He primarily practices in the areas of business, governmental law, natural resources law and estate planning.
Gayle received his B.A. at the College of Southern Utah and obtained his J.D. in 1970 from the University of Utah College of Law where he was a member of the Utah Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. He continued his education in the University of Utah MBA night program and is a graduate of the American Management Association�s Management course. His law practice has included service as a County Attorney and a City Attorney. He has been an adjunct professor for Utah State University teaching in the areas of political science, business and business law (1972-2000) and taught law practice management at Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School (1996-2000) as an adjunct professor. He served on the Board of Visitors at the Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School (1998-2000).
Gayle served four terms in the Utah House of Representatives, where he was at various times chairman of the Rules Committee, House Parliamentarian and Majority Whip. He was the Utah House Delegate on the National Conference of State legislature Committee on Law and Justice for four years and the National Conference Committee on Energy for four years. He belongs to the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association, and the American Management Association. He is trained as a mediator and is a member of the United States District Court for Utah panel of mediators. He has served by appointment on several Judicial Nominating Committees for selection of judges in State and Federal District Courts and the Utah Appellate Courts nominating Commission. He was a member of the Utah Public Land Law Review Commission in 1984 and the Utah Commission on the Administration of Justice in the District Courts 1986-1987. He was a member of the Utah Supreme Court Task Force on the regulation and management of the practice of law in Utah 1991-1992.
Gayle McKeachnie is admitted to practice before the Courts of Utah and Colorado, the Utah and Colorado Federal District Courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the U.S. Tax Court and the Supreme Court of the United States and is an American Bar Foundation Fellow, Utah Chapter.
Gayle has been a member of the Utah State Bar Board of Commissioners, the Utah State Board of State Lands and Forestry, the KUED Friends Board, the Utah Foundation Board, the Dinosaur Nature Association Board and is a past President of the Vernal Chamber of Commerce. He served as the chairman of Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt�s transition team for the Utah Department of Natural Resources in 1990 and 1998. He served 12 years as a member of and 10 years as the chairman of the Utah State Constitutional Revision Commission. He is presently a member of the Uintah Basin Applied Technology College Board of Trustees, a member and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Utah State University and is a member of the Utah Judicial Conduct Commission by appointment of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. He was given the Southern Utah University Distinguished Alumni Award in 1995, and the Utah State Bar Association Distinguished Lawyer of the Year award in 1997. He was awarded the State and Local Government Award by the Government and Politics Legal Society at Brigham Young University (2000).
Mr. McKeachnie is married to Kathlene A. McKeachnie. They live on and operate a farm and ranch in Vernal, Utah, and are the parents of seven children and have 19 grandchildren.
Vernal Attorney and former state legislator Gayle McKeachnie will become Utah's next Lieutenant Governor, continuing the transition after Gov. Mike Leavitt's confirmation as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
McKeachnie is the current chairman of Utah State University's Board of Trustees. He was the majority whip in Utah's House of Representatives in 1985 and 1986.
His appointment was announced Wednesday by current Lt. Gov. Olene Walker, who will become Utah's governor next week when Leavitt formally resigns and takes over the EPA in Washington.
Walker will finish out the remainder of the term with her Lieutenant Governor which ends in January 2005.
McKeachnie, 60, grew up in Uintah County. He graduated from the University of Utah law school and worked two years in Salt Lake City before returning home to open his own firm, specializing in natural resources law and estate planning.
A conservative, McKeachnie represented Vernal in the Utah House from 1978-1986. He was appointed in 1987 by then-Gov. Norm Bangerter to the state's Constitutional Revision Commission, a panel of attorneys, judges and legislators that advises the governor and lawmakers on proposed changes to the state Constitution. He served there for 12 years, including a decade as its chairman.
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