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Frankie Y Jones Related Seminars and Products

Municipal Court Judge

Phoenix Municipal Court

currently practices at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office since 1998 and became Bureau Chief of the Probation Violation Bureau in 2005. She has worked in Preliminary Hearing, Trial, Charging and Special Crimes bureaus. She was an associate at Stender and Larkin and practiced immigration law focusing on deportation defense and family petitions and was the associate attorney in charge of the family immigration department and family petitions. Frankie, also practiced criminal defense mainly in DUI in various municipal and justice courts. Prior to that she was an associate at the Law Office of Marshall Tandy where she practiced immigration law before the Immigration Court as well as criminal defense cases. Criminal cases included both misdemeanors and felony cases, ranging from DUI to felony drug cases. Frankie is chair of the State Bar of Arizona Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee. She also serves on the State Bar of Arizona Conflict Case Committee, the State Bar of Arizona Peer Review Committee and the Arizona Supreme Court Committee on Minorities in the Judiciary. She received her Juris Doctorate from Creighton University School of Law in 1993, and her Bachelor of Arts from Creighton University College of Arts and Sciences in 1990, where she majored in Political Science and minored in business. She was admitted to the State Bar of Arizona in 1994 and the United States District Court District of Arizona October on 1996. (5/2015)

Charles J Adornetto Related Seminars and Products

HON. CHARLES J. ADORNETTO is the Wickenburg Town Magistrate and a Judge Pro Tem in many courts. He has previously been the Judicial Education Officer for the Maricopa County Justice Courts, the Chief Hearing Officer of the Arizona Department of Juvenile Correction, the Chief Hearing Officer/Assistant Director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, and an Assistant Chief Administrative Law Judge at the Arizona Department of Transportation.

Judge Adornetto graduated from Stanford Law School and has a B.S. in Political Science from Arizona State University. He is a member of the Arizona Commission on Access to Justice and the Chair of that group’s Limited Jurisdiction Court Self-Represented Litigant Workgroup. He is a past Chair of the Executive Council of Arizona State Bar Public Lawyer Section and of the Juvenile Law Section.

Judge Adornetto was awarded the 2025 Michael J. Ryan Award for Judicial Excellence from the Public Lawyer Section of the Arizona State Bar; the 2024 Limited Jurisdiction Judges Association Sherry Geisler Member of the Year Award; and he has received three Strategic Agenda Awards from the Arizona Supreme Court for Enhancing Professionalism within Arizona’s Courts: in 2015 (Best Practice for Ensuring Access to Justice for Self-Represented Litigants); in 2020 (Best Practices and Webinars for Evictions During the Pandemic); and 2021 (New Judge Pro Tem Training Program).

Juan Carlos Flamand Related Seminars and Products

Juan C. Flamand is a partner at Fragomen focusing his practice on employment based immigration matters. He is a graduate of the Arizona State Bar Leadership Institute and is a former Chair of the Arizona State Bar Immigration section. He currently serves on AILA’s USCIS Operations Committee as well as the Business Section Steering Committee.