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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).

Wendy S Morton Related Seminars and Products

Commissioner

Superior Court of Arizona

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.