Chance Peterson

Assistant Chief Counsel

Registrar of Contractors

Chance Peterson is a certified administrative law specialist and serves as General Counsel for the Arizona Registrar of Contractors, having joined the agency in 2019. He is a 2014 graduate of the ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where he served as Senior Articles Editor for Jurimetrics - The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, and published his student note examining the American legal system’s struggles in adjudicating highly technical scientific disputes.
As a member and past chair of the State Bar’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section, Chance frequently presents on administrative law topics, including as a panelist at the 2025 convention’s construction law seminar on recent amendments to 12-910, and as chair of the administrative law section’s 2023 State Bar Convention seminar, titled “Major Questions Q&A: Status of the Non-Delegation and Major Questions Doctrines”. And following the Loper Bright decision, Chance presented at the National Association of State Contractor Licensing Agencies (“NASCLA”) to answer the question of the day: What deference remains?