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Judge

Maricopa County Superior Court

Honorable Lisa A. VandenBerg is the Presiding Disciplinary Judge for the Arizona Supreme Court – presiding over formal attorney discipline, disability, and reinstatement proceedings. Prior to the Arizona Supreme Court, Judge VandenBerg retired after 20 years from the Arizona State Superior Court of Maricopa County, as the Associate Presiding Judge of the Probate/Mental Health Department. During her tenure, she served as Associate Presiding Judge of Family Court and Presiding Commissioner of Probate - presiding over Criminal, Juvenile, Family, Probate and Lower Court and Administrative Appeal matters. She also handled numerous therapeutic courts including the Co-Occurring Rehabilitation Court which assisted probationers with SMI designation navigate their Criminal Court Probation terms with mental health resources.

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was appointed to the bench in 2020 and presided over hospital-based civil mental health proceedings before rotating to Probate. She graduated from the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law and began her legal career by clerking for Judge Patricia K. Norris on the Arizona Court of Appeals. She subsequently practiced law in the private, government, and non-profit sectors: she practiced commercial litigation at Lewis and Roca, represented state licensing agencies at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, worked as a career law clerk for U.S. Magistrate Judges David K. Duncan and Deborah M. Fine, and was Associate General Counsel for Chicanos Por La Causa.