Karl Arne Utgård (born 6 March 1951) is a Norwegian judge.
degree from the University of Oslo in 1976, and worked as a research assistant there for two years.
[1] He was the first Supreme Court Justice who uses the Nynorsk written standard of Norwegian.
[2] 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.
[2] Utgård received the Nynorsk User of the Year award in 2000.