Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen resigned effective immediately amid a Utah Legislature investigation into allegations tied to a redistricting lawsuit. The justice stepped down after questions over her relationship with attorney David Reymann, who worked on the case for progressive voting rights groups.
Hagen’s resignation ended a months-long public fight that had already pulled in the state’s judicial watchdogs and lawmakers. She was appointed to the court by Governor Spencer Cox in 2022 after serving on the Utah Court of Appeals.
In a statement issued in April on Hagen’s behalf, she said she had taken prompt, prudent and transparent steps after the allegations surfaced. She also said her last involvement in the redistricting case was in October 2024 and that she voluntarily recused herself from all cases involving Reymann in May 2025, with that recusal reflected in the court’s Sept. 15, 2025 opinion in League of Women Voters.
The allegations centered on a complaint that Hagen sent inappropriate text messages to Reymann, while her former husband made the accusation public during the dispute. Hagen and Reymann both denied the claims, and the Utah Judicial Conduct Commission, an independent body made up of lawmakers, judges and members of the public, conducted a preliminary investigation and declined to go further.
Hagen said the episode came after 26 years as a public servant and that public scrutiny had deepened the painful dissolution of her 30-year marriage. Her departure leaves the court without one of its newer members as the state continues to face the fallout from the redistricting fight over maps that kept four congressional seats red in Utah. The unanswered question now is not whether the allegations were serious enough to shake the court; they already did. It is whether the inquiry that reached the Legislature will lead to anything beyond Hagen’s exit.
