Attorney J. Michael Bailey ’83, a shareholder in Parsons Behle & Latimer’s Salt Lake City office, has been elected to the executive committee of the United States Golf Association (USGA). The executive committee is the governing board of the USGA. He is the first Utahan ever elected to serve on the committee in the USGA’s 121-year history.

Bailey is a member of the firm’s litigation and government relations departments and concentrates his practice on commercial and environmental litigation, as well as government relations and political law. Bailey served as the chair of the firm’s Hiring Committee and is rated in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, is listed in Super Lawyers and maintains an AV Preeminent™ rating from Martindale Hubbell.

He has served on the USGA’s Regional Affairs Committee since 2002 and served as a Rules official or scoring volunteer at many USGA amateur championships. Bailey played collegiate golf at Santa Clara University, where he earned his B.S. degree, before graduating from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. A former board member of The First Tee in Salt Lake City, he has volunteered on the boards of Ballet West, Utah Youth on Course, the Utah Championship Advisory Board and Friends of Utah Golf. He is a current board member of the Utah Golf Association and an advisor to the Golf Alliance of Utah.  He previously served as President of the Utah Bar Foundation.