Judge Frederic (Ric) Oddone is serving in the Utah Third District Juvenile Court Early life and education Oddone was raised in Washington, D.C. After receiving his high school diploma from Woodrow Wilson High School, also in Washington, DC, Oddone moved to Utah to attend Brigham Young University. Oddone completed his undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University in 1969. Afterward, Judge Oddone attended the University of Utah for post-graduate studies. He received his J.D. (Juris Doctor) degree from the University of Utah Law School in 1972. Legal career After graduation, Mr. Oddone served as a Deputy Salt Lake County Attorney under Carl Nemelka, Salt Lake County Attorney at the time. Mr. Oddone served in the Salt Lake County Attorney's office criminal division, specializing in juvenile deliquency, child abuse and child neglect cases. In 1986, Mr. Oddone was appointed the Division Chief of Juvenile & Family Court Division. While working in the Salt Lake County Attorney's office, Mr. Oddone served on the Governor's Task Force on Juvenile Justice, the Utah Supreme Court Committee on Rules & Procedure in the Juvenile Court, the Salt Lake County Commission on Young, the Salt Lake City Gang Task Force, the Utah Legislature's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Family Law and the Utah Adoption Council. Mr. Oddone continued his service in the Salt Lake County Attorney's office until 1994, when he was appointed to the Utah Juvenile Court. Judicial career In 1994, Mr. Oddone was appointed to the Third District Juvenile Court by then Governor Michael Leavitt. He has since been retained to the bench after a successful judicial retention election in 2010. Judge Oddone has had several successful retention elections, winning the most recent election with 73% of the vote. While in service to the Third District Juvenile Court, Judge Oddone has been a member of the Salt Lake City Mayor's Gang Task Force on Gang Violence, a member of the Judicial Council Family Court Task Force, the chairman of the Utah State Task Force on Court Security, served on the Salt Lake Criminal Justice Advisory Council. Judge Oddone serves as the Court's representative to the Sentencing Commission, an instructor for judicial faculty, the chairman of the Criminal Justice Program Advisory Committee at Salt Lake Community College and teaches law within the paralegal department of Salt Lake Community College. Judge Oddone has also served two terms as the presiding judge for Utah's Third District Juvenile Court