Judge Ortiz has been a Superior Court Judge in Pima County since July 2021, and previously was a Pro Tem Judge assigned to the Criminal Bench since November, 2018. She served on the Supreme Court Attorney Ethics Advisory Committee for four years, was on the Task Force that revised jury selection procedures, and is on the CJA Panel Selection Committee for U.S. District Court. Previously, she was a career prosecutor, most recently working as the Chief Counsel for the Arizona Attorney General’s So. Arizona White Collar & Criminal Enterprise Section from 2011-2018, and as an Assistant Attorney General from 1999-2011 prosecuting complex economic fraud, public corruption, illegal enterprise and racketeering crimes. From 1994-1999, Judge Ortiz worked on the U.S./Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona prosecuting felony cases for the Santa Cruz County Attorney’s Office. In 2018, the State Bar of Arizona awarded her the Michael C. Criminal Justice Award recognizing the criminal prosecutor who worked with professionalism, integrity, fairness, creativity and brilliance to represent the public’s interest and advance the principles of criminal justice. Judge Ortiz received her J.D. from the University of Arizona College of Law, where she taught Sentencing Law for a decade, and she was the Research Editor of the Arizona Law Review. She also received her undergraduate B.A. from Columbia University. She has a life-long obsession with English Labrador Retrievers, loves thrifting and estate sales, has too many on-going DIY house projects, enjoys watching Chopped and listening to true life crime podcasts, and is ultra-competitive in all word games.

Craig Henley is a motivated, personable lawyer with thirty (30) years of trial experience in a variety of forum including, but not limited to, local, state and federal courts in the states of Arizona, Louisiana, Texas and Ohio. Craig is licensed in both the State of Arizona and State of Louisiana (inactive) but has practiced exclusively as Senior Bar Counsel with the State Bar of Arizona for the last eleven (11) years. He has previously served as an Assistant District Attorney with the Louisiana 16th Judicial District Attorney's Office and practiced law with various sized law firms in the State of Arizona. Craig was a partner at the Law Offices of Henley & Hicks and solo practitioner at the Law Office of Craig Henley for six (6) years. Among his high-profile cases, Craig has successfully litigated a securities fraud case in the State of Ohio valued at well over one hundred eighty million dollars ($180MM), prosecuted an extensive voter fraud case in the State of Louisiana and represented the State of Arizona Treasurer.

Daniel Jurkowitz is the Assistant Chief Civil Deputy in the Pima County Attorney’s Office Civil Division and serves on the State Bar of Arizona's Professionalism Advisory Council. He also currently serves as a Superior Court Judge Pro Tempore, on the faculty of The National Judicial College, and is a past president of the Pima County Bar Association and the Pima County Bar Foundation. Previously, he served as Chair of the State Bar of Arizona's Professionalism Committee, an Administrative Law Judge for the Arizona Department of Transportation, a Justice of the Peace Pro Tempore, a Town Magistrate Pro Tempore, and a Hearing Officer, Settlement Officer, and Attorney Discipline Hearing Panel Member for the Arizona Supreme Court. He began his career as a prosecutor with the Pima County Attorney’s Office Criminal Division and is a graduate of the University of Arizona College of Law.