Stewart Young currently serves as the Criminal Deputy Attorney General at the Office of the Attorney General in the State of Utah (OAG). He is part of the OAG’s Executive Team and leads the OAG Criminal Department (which includes more than 145 prosecutors, agents, support staff, and professional staff). The Criminal Department consists of five Divisions: Justice Division, Investigations Division, Mortgage and Financial Fraud Division (White-Collar), Medicaid Control Fraud Division, and the Children’s Justice Centers Program. He also created the Financial Crimes Intelligence Center in Utah.

As the Criminal Chief, Stew is the OAG-designated representative on:

• Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (CCJJ);
• Utah POST Council;
• Utah Sentencing Commission;
• Statewide Association of Prosecutors (SWAP);
• Prosecutorial Conduct Commission;
• Governor’s Criminal Justice Task Force.

Stew previously served for almost thirteen years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Financial Crimes Section, as well as both the District’s Criminal Tax Coordinator and TIGTA Coordinator at the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) of the District of Utah. For more than three months in 2024, he was detailed to the Counterterrorism Section, National Security Division, as the DOJ Judicial Attaché stationed in Amman, Jordan, working on international counterterrorism prosecutions with the U.S. military and more than two dozen foreign partners. For three years, he was detailed to the Department of Justice as a Trial Attorney for Joint Task Force Vulcan, which was tasked with eliminating the MS-13 international gang in the United States and abroad. He previously served as the Senior Litigation Counsel, Training Officer, Lead Corporate Fraud Attorney, and in the following USAO sections: Violent Crimes, OCDETF, Public Corruption, and White Collar/Economic Fraud. He joined the Utah USAO in 2012, after serving as a tenure-track law professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law. Previously, for four years he served as an AUSA through the Attorney General’s Honors Program in the Southern District of California (San Diego).

After graduating from law school, Stew served successive federal judicial clerkships on the Ninth Circuit (for Judge Jay Bybee in Las Vegas) and on the District of Utah (for Judge Paul Cassell).  Stew is a graduate of Stanford Law School, with a master’s degree from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.