Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Kathleen Riebe, a teacher, a mother and newly elected Democrat from Cottonwood Heights, will represent Senate District 8 in the 2019 Legislative Session in January. Riebe is shown with two Granite School District students: Camila Soriano, 9, and her brother, Isaac Soriano, 7. The number of women in the Utah Legislature will reach a historic high in 2019 at 24 percent.
Michelle attended undergraduate and law school at Brigham Young University. She worked at a large law firm in New York City after school before starting her family. She was a clerk on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and dean of admissions at BYU Law School before entering private practice as an appellate attorney. She has seven children.