Faculty Profile

Cuban-born Denise Posse Lindberg received her elementary and secondary education in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the United States. After completing a Bachelor’s degree at Brigham Young University, she earned Masters' and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Utah. Subsequently,  she received her Juris Doctor degree from BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, graduating magna cum laude and second in her class.  

She clerked for Judge Monroe McKay at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at the Supreme Court of the United States. Following her Supreme Court clerkship, she practiced appellate and healthcare law in Washington, DC and Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1998, Governor Michael O. Leavitt appointed her to Utah’s Third District Court bench. She took senior status in 2015, retiring in 2025.  

From 2014 to 2018 Judge Lindberg was a general officer of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving on the Young Women General Board. In that role she visited and spoke at numerous congregations in Latin America, the United States, and Nigeria. Concurrently, she served on the Board of Trustees of LDS Family Services. Shortly after release from the Young  Women Board, Judge Lindberg and her husband (Neil) were called to represent Latter-day Saint Charities and BYU's International Center for Law and Religion Studies at the Organization of American States in Washington, DC., where they served until 2020.

Judge Lindberg recently joined the BYU law faculty as an adjunct professor. Additionally, she is a Senior Fellow with BYU’s International Center and a volunteer Government Relations Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean with the Office of General Counsel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is a member of the Latin American Consortium for Religious Liberty, and a former member of its executive committee. The Consortium is an organization of law professors from leading Latin American universities who teach and write in the field of  comparative law and religion.

Judge Lindberg is a frequent speaker and moderator at conferences throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, addressing topics that range from the rule of law and judicial independence to religious freedom, human dignity, and interfaith engagement. Her academic writing and publications focus on Cuban law.