Total Credits: 6.5 CLE, 6.5 Criminal Law Specialization, 6.5 Family Law Specialization
In recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness month, our seminar provides a comprehensive look at domestic violence law in Arizona. Get an in-depth understanding about orders of protection and the address confidentiality program. Learn from experts about working with domestic violence victims who have experienced traumatic brain injuries. Hear from an expert on risk assessment and management in intimate partner violence cases.
8:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Updates on Protective Orders
Hon. Wendy Morton, Maricopa County Superior Court
Charles Adornetto, Maricopa County Justice Courts
10:45 - 11:30
Address Confidentiality Program
Merri Tiseth, Executive Director, Address Confidentiality Program, Office of the Secretary of State
11:30 - noon
Q&A/Panel Discussion
Hon. Wendy Morton, Maricopa County Superior Court
Charles Adornetto, Maricopa County Justice Courts
Merri Tiseth, Executive Director, Address Confidentiality Program, Office of the Secretary of State
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Risk Assessment and Management in Intimate Partner Violence Cases
Dr. Neil Websdale, Director, Family Violence Center, Arizona State University
2:45 - 4:15 p.m.
Working with DV Victims and Traumatic Brain Injury
Dr. Glynnis Zieman, Medical Director, Barrow Domestic Violence Brain Injury Program, Barrow Neurological Institute
Ashley Bridwell, Program Coordinator, Outpatient Neurological Rehabilitation, Barrow Neurological Institute
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Closing Q&A/Reflections
Charles Adornetto, Maricopa County Justice Courts
Ashley Bridwell, Program Coordinator, Outpatient Neurological Rehabilitation, Barrow Neurological Institute
Merri Tiseth, Executive Director, Address Confidentiality Program, Office of the Secretary of State
Dr. Neil Websdale, Director, Family Violence Center, Arizona State University
Dr. Glynnis Zieman, Medical Director, Barrow Domestic Violence Brain Injury Program, Barrow Neurological Institute
Seminar Chairpersons
Hon. Wendy Morton, Maricopa County Superior Court
Charles Adornetto, Maricopa County Justice Courts
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| Domestic Violence 2024: Developments in Protective Orders; Risk Assessment and Traumatic Brain Injury Manual (15.5 MB) | 128 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Honorable Wendy S. Morton is a Commissioner for the Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County. She was appointed to the Superior Court bench in 2011 and is currently assigned to the Family Department. This is her second rotation in the Family Department, having previously served as Presiding Family Court Commissioner. Prior to her current assignment, she served in the Juvenile Department and the Criminal Department in Rule 11/Mental Health and Veterans Court. She has also served on the bench at the City of Phoenix, the City of Scottsdale and as an Administrative Law Judge with the Office of Administrative Hearings. She began her career as a Deputy Maricopa County Attorney.
Honorable Charles J. Adornetto is the Judicial Education Officer for the Maricopa County Justice Courts and a Judge Pro Tempore in several courts. In his many years of legal practice, Mr. Adornetto has been the Wickenburg Town Magistrate, the Chief Hearing Officer at the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections, 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.
Mr. Adornetto graduated from Stanford Law School and has a B.S. in Political Science from Arizona State University. He has also attended the Judicial College of Arizona, the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, the Arizona College of Trial Advocacy, the Certified Public Manager program, and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Mr. Adornetto 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.
Mr. Adornetto was awarded 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).
Merri Tiseth joined the Arizona Department of State- Secretary of State’s Office in December 2016 as the Program Coordinator for the Arizona Address Confidentiality Program (ACP). In September 2019 she was appointed Executive Director of the ACP and also joined the National Association of Confidential Address Programs (NACAP) where she serves on the board as Treasurer as well as several other committees.
Prior to joining the ACP team, Merri was with the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence (formerly AzCADV) from 2004 until December 2016, as the Director of Legal Services.
Professor Neil Websdale is Director of the Family Violence Center at Arizona State University, the National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative (NDVFRI) funded by the US Department of Justice, and the LibrES project, funded by USAID. He has published work on domestic violence, the history of crime, policing, social change, and public policy. Dr. Websdale has published six books: Rural Woman Battering and the Justice System: An Ethnography (Sage, 1998) which won the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award in 1999; Understanding Domestic Homicide (Northeastern University Press, 1999); Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control (Aldine Books, co-edited with Jeff Ferrell, 1999); Policing the Poor: From Slave Plantation to Public Housing (Northeastern University Press, 2001), winner of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award in 2002 and the Gustavus-Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Award in 2002; Familicidal Hearts: The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers (Oxford University Press, 2010). His latest book, Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias: Gray Mist Killings was published by Routledge in 2024. Dr. Websdale’s social policy work involves helping establish networks of domestic violence fatality review teams across the United States and elsewhere. He also directs various community informed intimate partner violence risk assessment initiatives, the fatality review and safety assessment projects, and a number of other multiagency and interdisciplinary initiatives. Dr. Websdale trained as a sociologist at the University of London, England and lives and works in Flagstaff, Arizona.
, LMSW is the coordinator and co-founder of the nation’s first program to address traumatic brain injury in the domestic violence population at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ. The program was featured on The Today Show and National Public Radio as in the summer of 2018. Ashley has dedicated her career as a social worker to address and bring awareness to traumatic brain injury in vulnerable populations through community and direct clinical care. Since finishing her masters at ASU in 2004 she has worked for Barrow Neurological Institute and served on various boards and city commissions to advocate for people with disabilities. Ashley has taught at ASU School of Social Work and is the subject matter expert for TBI in vulnerable populations at ASU’s Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy. Since 2013 Ashley has provided education as a certified peace officer trainer to the City of Phoenix Police Department on cognitive disabilities. Ashley’s work was published in the Journal of Neuro Trauma in the spring of 2016 and the NASW Health Section in the summer of 2017. Ashley was proud to be named as one of the Phoenix Business Journals Top 40 Under 40 in 2017 and the YWCA Advocacy Leadership Award in the Winter of 2016. She dedicates her spare time to local politics. (9/2018)