Roger Armstrong

Summit County Council Member, Summit County

March 19 at 11:30 a.m. | Room 321 | Utah Renewable Communities: Bringing Clean Energy Options to Utah's Cities, Towns, and Counties

Roger Armstrong has been a member of the Summit County Council since 2013. Sustainability has been a particular focus for him during his tenure on the Council and he has worked with his colleagues on a variety of sustainable energy measures benefitting Summit County residents. During his tenure, Summit County partnered with Salt Lake City, Park City, Park City Mountain Resort, Deer Valley Resort and Utah Valley University to facilitate the creation of the Elektron Solar Project in Tooele County, which enabled
Summit County operations to achieve its goal of obtaining sufficient renewable energy resources to operate County facilities at 100% renewable. Council member Armstrong also serves on the Program Design committee of Utah Renewable Communities, a collection of 19 cities and counties pursuing 100% renewable energy resources for their residents. He has collaborated on the protection of thousands of acres of open space to protect water sources and wildlife habitat, facilitated solar panel bulk purchase initiatives to facilitate
affordable rooftop solar for Summit County residents, approved policies to convert the Summit County fleet to electric and hybrid vehicles, and supported Summit County initiatives to mitigate wildfire risk.

Professionally, Mr. Armstrong is an entertainment attorney and provides transactional representation in the motion picture and television industries, and has worked in the movie industry for 45 years. Mr. Armstrong represents motion picture and television producers, animation companies and film and television production companies, motion picture and television actors and on-camera hosts, screenwriters, directors and book authors. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Armstrong formulated and implemented publicity campaigns for well over a hundred motion pictures such as JFK, Field of Dreams, Back to the Future Parts II and III, Do the Right Thing, Tremors, Hook, Basic Instinct, Sea of Love, Gorillas in the Mist, Bugsy, Parenthood, Backdraft and Blue Velvet and many more.