Katie Hudman

Biography

For over two decades, Katie Hudman has focused her practice on employment law. Her passion is prevention: preventing organizations from being sued. To that end, Katie has spent much of her career training company leaders and HR professionals on various employee management principles, including effective employee discipline and documentation, as well as legal compliance obligations under employment laws covering topics such as discrimination, harassment, family and medical leave, overtime pay, drug testing, and disability accommodations. She is excited to join Utah State University to continue training future business leaders!

In addition to training, Katie has advised employers on day-to-day employee situations covering the entire employee life cycle from hiring to termination, prepared employment law education publications, and reviewed employee handbooks. She also has experience helping employers with internal investigations, severance agreements, and claims filed with or investigations by government agencies.

Katie began her legal career as a law clerk for the Utah Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel and Justice Christine M. Durham of the Utah Supreme Court. Next, she worked as an associate attorney at Kirton McConkie for four years. She then worked as an attorney and training director at Employers Council for seventeen years where she helped employers find practical ways to efficiently run their businesses while complying with the ever-increasing number of federal and state employment laws. She returned to Kirton McConkie in 2022, joining the Labor & Employment Law Section in 2022.

Katie graduated from Weber State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science and a double minor in communications and legal studies. She received her law degree, with honors, from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, where she served on the college’s law review. Katie also has PHR and SPHR certification credentials from HRCI.

Katie has been recognized as the Utah State Bar’s Employment Lawyer of the Year and several times by Utah Business Magazine as one of Utah’s Legal Elite. She served for four years in the leadership of the Utah State Bar Labor & Employment Law Section and currently serves as co-chair of the Women Lawyers of Utah Continuing Education Committee. She has also volunteered with the Boy Scouts of America, at her children’s school, and in her church organization.