2025 Workers' Compensation Conference - Day 2

Erin Nelson Related Seminars and Products

Randy Whiteside Related Seminars and Products

Andrew Bottrell Related Seminars and Products

Robert Waldrop Related Seminars and Products

Luay Shayya Related Seminars and Products

Frederick Strobl Related Seminars and Products

Vice Chief Justice Ann A Scott Timmer Related Seminars and Products

Vice Chief Justice

Supreme Court of Arizona

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.

Maria Elena Cruz Related Seminars and Products

Arizona Court of Appeals - Division One

serves on the Arizona Court of Appeals. Prior to Judge Cruz’ appointment to the Court of Appeals, she served as the Presiding Judge of Superior Court in Yuma County. During her tenure in the Superior Court Judge Cruz presided over juvenile, family, civil and criminal matters. Judge Cruz obtained a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law and has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Arizona. As a Court of Appeals judge, Judge Cruz presides over criminal, civil, tax, and administrative law appeals. Judge Cruz also serves on the Arizona Supreme Court’s Commission on Victims in the Court, Arizona State Bar Convention Working Group, University of Arizona’s Innovation for Justice (i4j) Board, and Commission on Diversity, Equality, and Justice in the Judiciary. She also volunteers her time as a presenter for U of A Law School, ASU Law School, and community organizations around the State. Judge Cruz contributes to the development of the law internationally by serving as a professor of law teaching trial advocacy in various regions within the Republic of Mexico.

Thomas A Zlaket Related Seminars and Products

Managing Attorney

Thomas A. Zlaket, P.L.L.C.

was graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1962. He received his law degree in 1965 from the University of Arizona, and earned a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia in 2001. In 2002, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Arizona.

Admitted to practice in Arizona and California, he has been a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers since 1982, and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates since 1972. Mr. Zlaket has tried several hundred jury trials to a conclusion in his career and has been lead counsel on countless other matters before state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels.

Mr. Zlaket served on the faculty of the Arizona College of Trial Advocacy for several years. He has also taught at the Hastings College of Trial Advocacy and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He most recently served as a Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, teaching a class on Professionalism.

Mr. Zlaket is a past president of the State Bar of Arizona, a Founding Fellow of the Arizona Bar Foundation, and a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Mr. Zlaket practiced law in Arizona from 1965-1992, when he was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court as an Associate Justice. In 1996, he served as Vice Chief Justice, and from 1997-2002 he was the Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. Since his retirement from the state court in 2002, he has served as Chief Judge of the Tonto Apache Tribal Court of Appeals, and as a Judge Pro Tem of the San Carlos Apache Tribal Court. Mr. Zlaket still maintains an active law practice in Tucson, Arizona.

Mr. Zlaket has been the recipient of numerous honors, including the Chief Justice Richard W. Holmes Award of Merit from the American Judges Association, the James A. Walsh Outstanding Jurist Award from the State Bar of Arizona, the Paul C. Reardon Award from the National Center for State Courts, the Distinguished Citizen Award from the University of Arizona, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.

Among his many other activities, Mr. Zlaket has been a trustee of the Nature Conservancy (Arizona Chapter); a member of the D-M 50, a support group for the men and women serving at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson; a board member and Chairman of the Tucson Airport Authority; and a member and past president of the Tucson Conquistadores, an organization supporting youth athletics in Pima County, Arizona.

David Todd Lundmark Related Seminars and Products

Nathan C Zollinger Related Seminars and Products

Hilton Sedona Resort at Bell Rock