Karl Arne Utgård

Karl Arne Utgård (born 6 March 1951) is a Norwegian judge.

He was born in Sykkylven. He graduated as cand.jur. from the University of Oslo in 1976, and worked as a research assistant there for two years. He is a Supreme Court Justice from 1999. He is the first Supreme Court Justice who uses the Neo-Norwegian written standard of Norwegian language.

He was chairman of the board of the publishing house Det Norske Samlaget from 1981 to 1985 and of the Norwegian National Courts Administration from 2005.