Cuban-born Denise Posse Lindberg was educated in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the United States. She received a B.A. from Brigham Young University; an M.S. in Educational Psychology, an M.S.W., and a Ph.D. in Health Science, all from the University of Utah; and a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School.

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 U.S. Supreme Court. She then practiced appellate and healthcare law in Washington, DC and Salt Lake City. She was appointed to Utah’s Third District Court bench in 1998, took senior status in 2015, and retired in 2025.

Between 2018 and 2020, Judge Lindberg and her husband, Neil Lindberg, represented Latter-day Saint Charities and BYU’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS) before the Organization of American States in Washington, DC. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at BYU Law School, a Senior Fellow with the ICLRS, and a Government Relations Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean with the Church’s Office of General Counsel. She is a member of the Latin American Consortium for Religious Liberty (National Reporter for Cuba) and a former executive committee member.

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, themes she also treats in her publications on Cuban law.