Anna M Unterberger
Anna Unterberger was a Deputy Public Defender with the Maricopa County Public Defender's Office for 31 years. After 7 years in the Trial Division and 10 years in the Appeals Division, she spent 14 years in the Capital Trial Unit. Her practice in that unit focused on written advocacy and tenacious negotiations. She does not have any clients on death row. Prior to joining the Public Defender's Office, she was an attorney in private practice, working primarily in the area of commercial litigation, and an Assistant Attorney General with the Arizona Attorney General's Office in the Antitrust Division. She served as Judicial Law Clerk for the Hon. James Duke Cameron at the Arizona Supreme Court during the 1983-84 judicial term, and as a Congressional Intern in 1979 for then House Minority Leader John J. Rhodes, Jr. Anna received a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science from Rice University in 1980, and a J.D. from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1983, where she was a member of The Arizona Law Review. She is a former member of the State Bar of Arizona's Revised Criminal Jury Instructions Committee and the Bar's Committee on Professional Conduct ("Ethics Committee"). She was also on the Editorial Board for the Bar's Revised Ethics Handbook, as well as being a contributing author. She was one of 18 Arizonans who received the Bar's Gideon Award, in recognition of her contributions to indigent criminal defense. She was also the recipient of the Jack Williams Appellate Achievement Award from the Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, and she has argued (and even won) cases in the Arizona Court of Appeals and the Arizona Supreme Court.
