Women in the Law Resources - Advocates

The WIL Committee encourages JRCLS members to submit biographies of women in the law and of advocates for women in the law that can be posted on our website as a way of connecting JRCLS women members and of educating each other about the diverse and varied backgrounds of our members.  The WIL Committee hope that the biographies provided here of the members of the WIL Committee will encourage communications from JRCLS women members that can be shared on the WIL website and that will help the WIL Committee better serve the JRCLS women members.

Wendy C. Archibald
William F. Atkin
Mary Hoagland
Annette W. Jarvis
Melinda A. Morgan
Hannah C. Smith
Tiffany Smith

Tiffany Smith

Tiffany Smith began her legal career at age 39 after a thirteen year hiatus from school. She attended the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah where she participated on the Utah Law Review. Tiffany is currently clerking for Judge Monroe G. McKay, Senior Judge on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, after which she will be working in the Corporate/Tax Section of Kirton & McConkie, a Salt Lake City law firm.

In the past two decades, Tiffany has worked in the public health field, as a small business owner, and as a mother. Tiffany graduated from Smith College in 1987. After graduation, she lived in Boston and worked in the international family planning field. Tiffany then moved to Los Angeles to attend the U.C.L.A. School of Public Health. She married Benjamin Driggs in 1990, received her Masters of Public Health in 1991, and then continued working in the public health field until 1993.

Tiffany and Ben moved to Maryland in 1993. Tiffany intended to pursue her public health career, but she took an unexpected professional turn. Tiffany and her husband had been tutoring high school students to earn money during graduate school. When they moved to Maryland, they continued this practice and had such a booming business that they founded and managed Potomac Tutors, a private tutoring company located in Potomac and Bethesda, Maryland, for the next ten years. They had three children during those years. In 2001, they sold the company and moved to Utah, at which time Tiffany stopped working outside the home and stayed home with her three children ages 1, 3, and 5 for the next three years.

In 2004, Tiffany started law school full-time when her children were in pre-K, 1st, and 3rd grades. With a lot of divine intervention and a very supportive husband, Tiffany graduated in May 2007 with high honors.

Any woman considering pursuing a legal career at a later life stage may contact Tiffany with questions about how she and her family balance the load on a daily basis.

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