Charles J Adornetto

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).