Judge Clemens Landau joined the Salt Lake City Justice Court in 2018. Mayor Jackie Biskupski appointed him. Before that, he worked as a lawyer at two law firms: Parr, Brown, Gee & Loveless and Zimmerman Booher. Before becoming a lawyer, he was a paramedic in Boston, Massachusetts. He also ran a woodworking and instrument-making business in Germany.

Judge Landau is part of groups that work to improve the justice system. He serves on Utah’s Access to Justice Commission and committees for technology and community relations. He also helps groups that fight bias and support people with mental illness in the justice system.

He is on the boards of the Salt Lake County Bar Association and the Utah Center for Legal Inclusion. This group helps make law careers more fair. He teaches a Law and Literature class at Utah State Prison for a University of Utah program. He has also taught law and justice courses at the University of Utah, Stanford, and Harvard. Judge Landau speaks at national conferences on legal topics.