Tim Berg is a shareholder and director at Fennemore where he is chair of the Firm’s appellate practice
group. He practices in the areas of civil appeals, public records law, public utility law and Arizona
constitutional law. He also serves as the Firm’s General Counsel regularly addressing ethics
issues. Prior to joining Fennemore, he clerked for Richard H. Chambers, chief judge of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Chief Justice Brutinel became Chief Justice on July 1, 2019. He was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in November of 2010 and was elected as Vice Chief Justice in January 2018. Prior to his appointment, Justice Brutinel served as the Presiding Judge of the Yavapai County Superior Court, where he presided over cases involving civil, criminal, juvenile, mental health, drug court, probate and domestic relations matters.

Justice Brutinel currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Conference of Chief Justices and has served on the Arizona Supreme Court Committee on Juvenile Courts, the Arizona Supreme Court Commission on Technology, the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct, the Supreme Court Arizona Judicial Council, the Arizona Character Education Commission, and the Governor’s Children’s Cabinet. Justice Brutinel is a past president of the Arizona Judges Association and the Yavapai County Bar Association and has served as an Advisory Board Member for the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections. In 2010 Justice Brutinel was chosen as the National Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Judge of the Year.

Justice Brutinel graduated from Arizona State University with a B.S. in Economics in 1979. He received his law degree from the University of Arizona in 1982 and an LL.M. in Judicial Studies from Duke University in 2018. Justice Brutinel was admitted to practice law in Arizona in 1982. Prior to serving as a judge he practiced law in Prescott, Arizona, primarily in the areas of business and real estate, and Indian Law.

JUDGE RANDALL H. WARNER was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Arizona in August 2007. He
has served on civil, criminal, family, and juvenile court assignments. Judge Warner was the Civil
Presiding Judge in Maricopa County from June 2015 through June 2018, and presided over a Civil
Complex Calendar for four years. Before joining the bench, Judge Warner had an appellate and
commercial litigation practice. At the start of his career, he clerked for Arizona Supreme Court Justice
Thomas A. Zlaket. Judge Warner teaches and writes frequently on the law-fact distinction, civil practice
issues, effective advocacy, and case management.

Lisa Banen is a graduate of Cornell Law School and has practiced law in Arizona for 35 years, including more than two decades in private practice and seven years at the Attorney General's Office. In 2016, she joined the Staff Attorneys' Office, and in January 2020, she was promoted to Chief Staff Attorney.

Vice Chief Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer joined the Arizona Supreme Court in 2012. She was elected by her colleagues as Vice Chief Justice in 2019. She currently chairs the court’s Commission on Technology, and previously chaired the court’s Legal Services Task Force, and the Attorney Regulation Committee. She is a member of the National Conference of Bar Examiners Board of Trustees, serves on the Board of Trustees of the Appellate Judges Education Institute and has been elected to The American Law Institute. She has received many honors, including most recently being named one of a New Decade of Arizona’s Most Intriguing Women (2022), an ABA Journal and ABA Center for Innovation Legal Rebel (2021), and the Arizona Capitol Times Woman of the Year (2020). Prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court bench, Justice Timmer served on the Arizona Court of Appeals for twelve years, serving as its chief judge for three years. Justice Timmer earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona, her J. D. magna cum laude, from Arizona State University Law School (now the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law), and a Masters in Judicial Studies from Duke University Law School. As an attorney, she primarily practiced commercial litigation with Phoenix-based law firms.

JUSTICE JAMES P. BEENE was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in 2019. Prior to his appointment, Justice Beene spent two and a half years on the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, and seven years on the Arizona Superior Court for Maricopa County. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1988 and earned his J.D. from the University of Arizona in 1991. Justice Beene began his legal career at the Pinal County Attorney's Office, and then worked as a trial attorney in the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.

is a partner at Osborn Maledon where she works on civil litigation, appeals and strategic advice and counseling, with an emphasis on public law issues. She has extensive experience in redistricting, campaign finance law, voting rights issues and other election law issues. Mary represented the 2011 Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, advising on all aspects of the redistricting process and defending the Commission in litigation in state and federal courts. Mary served as Arizona Solicitor General from 2002 to 2011 and in that capacity, she oversaw the State's campaign finance and election law work and worked on numerous constitutional challenges to Arizona state laws. She has worked on twelve cases on the merits before the United States Supreme Court. Mary earned her J.D. from Arizona State University. She also has an M.A. in History from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a B.A. in History from Arizona State University.

IV was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in 2017. Prior to his appointment, he was Solicitor General for the State of Arizona in the Office of Attorney General where he handled civil lawsuits and appeals, as well as criminal appeals, including capital cases. He worked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix for over 12 years serving in various roles, including Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney, Chief Assistant of the Phoenix office, Chief of Financial Crimes and Public Integrity Section, and Deputy Appellate Chief. He also served for six months in Iraq as a legal advisor with the Regime Crimes Liaison Office, the Department of Justice-led group tasked with assisting the Iraqi government with the prosecution of Saddam Hussein. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he worked in private practice with a Phoenix law firm as a civil litigator for several years. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1992, and from the Arizona State University College of Law in 1998. (10/2017)

- Prior to Justice William G. Montgomery’s appointment to the Arizona Supreme Court in 2019, he served as the Maricopa County Attorney beginning with a special election in 2010. Before assuming elected office, Justice Montgomery served as a Deputy County Attorney, as well as practicing civil law with a local insurance defense firm and advocacy work on behalf of victims of crime. Justice Montgomery earned a B.S. degree and received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Army from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1989. He received his law degree from Arizona State University in 2001.

Clint Bolick was appointed by Governor Doug Ducey in January 2016 to serve on the Arizona Supreme Court and was retained by the voters in 2018 and 2024.
Prior to joining the Court, Justice Bolick litigated constitutional cases in state and federal courts from coast to coast, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Among other positions, he served as Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute and as Co-founder and Vice President for Litigation at the Institute for Justice. He has litigated in support of school choice, freedom of enterprise, private property rights, freedom of speech, and federalism, and against racial classifications and government subsidies.
Justice Bolick received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California at Davis, where he has been recognized as a distinguished alumnus, and his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Drew University. He serves as a research fellow with the Hoover Institution. Among other honors, he was named one of the 90 Greatest DC Lawyers in the Last 30 Years by Legal Times in 2008, received a Bradley Prize in 2006, and was recognized as one of the nation’s three lawyers of the year by American Lawyer in 2002 for his successful defense of school vouchers in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris.
Justice Bolick is a prolific author of a dozen books and hundreds of articles. Among his most recent books are Unshackled: Freeing America’s K-12 Education System: Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution, co-authored with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush; and David’s Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary. Bolick serves as an adjunct professor of constitutional law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law and has served as a lecturer at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

David Euchner is the appellate unit supervisor and resource counsel of the Pima County Public
Defender’s Office, professor of practice in criminal law and criminal procedure at the University of
Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, and the co-author of the Arizona Criminal Practice Manual
published by Thomson Reuters. In 2014 he was the president of Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice,
the state affiliate of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and he was recently elected
to be AACJ’s President in 2026, the first to repeat in that role. He has served as chair or co-chair of
AACJ’s amicus and rules committee since 2011.
Dave has acted as counsel, for a party or for an amicus, in cases resulting in more than 100 published
opinions, and he has participated in more than 80 oral arguments, evenly divided between the Arizona
Supreme Court and Arizona Court of Appeals. He currently and has previously served on several
committees of the State Bar of Arizona and the Arizona Supreme Court tasked with rewriting court rules
and jury instructions. He received the Outstanding Performance Award from the Arizona Public
Defender Association in 2016, the Vanguard Leadership Award (now named the Larry Hammond
Leadership Award) from AACJ in 2017, and the Jack Williams Appellate Achievement Award from
AACJ in 2021. He earned his BA and JD degrees from Rutgers University.

was appointed by Governor Doug Ducey to serve on the Arizona Supreme Court in July 2021. Prior to her appointment, she served as a Partner at BurnsBarton, PLC, where she practiced primarily in the area of labor and employment law. She began her legal career as an attorney at Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P. where she practiced labor and employment law and commercial litigation. She later served as Deputy General Counsel to Governor Ducey, during which time she advised on various constitutional, statutory, and other legal requirements of the Governor's Office. Justice King graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She then obtained her law degree from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, where she served as a Note and Comment Editor for the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law. After law school, Justice King clerked for Arizona Supreme Court Justice Michael D. Ryan. She also previously served as a Regent on the Arizona Board of Regents and as a member of the Arizona Civil Rights Advisory Board. While in private law practice, she was selected to Southwest Super Lawyers and Southwest Rising Stars in the area of Employment & Labor.

Joseph N. Roth is a partner at Osborn Maledon, where his practice focuses on appeals, government
investigations, and complex civil litigation. He was a longtime coauthor of a monthly column in
Arizona Attorney magazine covering civil appeals and a co-editor of the azapp.com blog. Joe frequently
represents clients on appeal before state and federal court in civil and regulatory matters. Joe received
his J.D. from Columbia Law School and his B.A. from the University of Arizona. After law school, Joe
clerked for Justice Scott Bales of the Arizona Supreme Court.

, the former Legal Director of the ACLU of Arizona, handles all types of criminal, regulatory, and administrative matters with the firm of Mitchell Stein Carey Chapman PC. Her practice focuses on representing and advising individuals, corporations, and public entities during government investigations, assisting companies and public entities in conducting internal investigations, representing licensed professionals in discipline proceedings, and handling complex matters where criminal law issues intersect with constitutional rights, civil liability, politics, and public relations.

Kathy has significant expertise in lawyer ethics and professional responsibility. She served on the Arizona State Bar Ethics Committee and as the editorial board co-chair for the most recent edition of the Arizona Legal Ethics Handbook. Kathy has provided advice to lawyers and judges in Arizona on ethical issues and professional obligations and has represented them when they came under investigation by the State Bar or Commission on Judicial Conduct. Kathy has also represented Arizona licensed fiduciaries in connection with audits and investigations by the Arizona Fiduciary Board.

Kathy has represented clients in connection with allegations of money laundering, consumer fraud, data breaches, and public corruption. She has considerable experience in complex compliance matters, including those involving deferred prosecution agreements and corporate monitors. She has advised companies regarding legal compliance in various areas, including anti-money laundering, other laws that apply to financial institutions, mandatory-reporter laws, and health-care regulations.

Kathy has also advised and represented public officials and public entities on various criminal and civil law issues. She is an expert on the Arizona Public Records Act, having counseled public entities on their obligations, sought public records on behalf of clients in connection with criminal and civil investigations, and litigated public records issues in Arizona courts.

Kathy is also experienced in civil and criminal appeals in state and federal courts. Kathy has advised clients with respect to potential post-conviction claims following state and federal court convictions, including conducting post-conviction investigations and legal evaluations for clients, and litigated post-conviction cases in Arizona state courts. Kathy has also authored numerous amicus curiae briefs in state and federal appellate courts, including the United States and Arizona Supreme Courts.

Kathy speaks frequently to groups and to the media on criminal and white-collar issues, civil rights, and constitutional issues. Since 2015, Kathy has been a leader in Arizona in the fight for criminal justice reform. As President of the Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, she led the organization in reinvigorating its legislative and policy committee and making AACJ the go-to organization for Arizona legislators and other policy makers on criminal justice issues. She continues to press for reform on various fronts, including through ongoing constitutional litigation.

As Legal Director of the ACLU of Arizona, Kathy directed a large and busy docket of ongoing and developing constitutional litigation, including cases involving the First Amendment, the criminal justice system, and the rights of people in prisons and jails. Kathy was previously a partner at the Phoenix law firm of Osborn Maledon, where her work focused on government and internal investigations, civil and criminal appeals and post-conviction proceedings, and professional discipline.

Kathy has a B.A. in archaeological studies from Yale University. She graduated summa cum laude from the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as the Case Notes Editor for the Arizona Law Review. Following her graduation from law school, Kathy served as a law clerk to Arizona Supreme Court Justice Andrew D. Hurwitz.

Eric M. Fraser is a partner and co-chair of the appellate practice at Osborn Maledon, where his practice
focuses on major civil appeals. He coauthors a monthly column in Arizona Attorney magazine covering
civil appeals, coedits the azapp.com blog, and contributes to SCOTUSblog. He is a Ninth Circuit
Appellate Lawyer Representative and a former chair of the State Bar of Arizona’s Appellate Practice
Section. Eric received his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in Physics from
Pomona College. Before joining private practice, Eric clerked for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg on the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Emily Ward is an equity director/partner at Fennemore focusing on business litigation and appeals.
After graduating Summa Cum Laude from the University of Arizona College of Law, Emily clerked for
Justice Brutinel on the Arizona Supreme Court before completing a federal district court clerkship for
U.S. District Court Judge David Alan Ezra in San Antonio, Texas. Today, Emily litigates high-stakes
cases for governmental and business clients on a wide variety of practice areas including constitutional
issues, as well as contract and commercial real estate disputes. She is recognized as a Super Lawyers®
Rising Star in Business Litigation, Chambers USA, Leading Lawyers for Business Up and Coming-
Appellate; Best Lawyers® Ones to Watch, Commercial Litigation and AZ State Bar Pro Bono Attorney
of the Year. She was also featured in the PHOENIX Magazine as a Top Lawyer in Business Litigation
and was recently selected as Phoenix Business Journal’s 40 Under 40.

Josh Bendor serves as the Solicitor General at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. Previously, he was a partner at Osborn Maledon, where his practice included election litigation.