Donn G Kessler

Arizona Court of Appeals - Division One

was a judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals from 2003 to June 2017. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU where he teaches mindfulness for law students with Chelsea Gaberdiel.

Donn presented at the 2010 Mindful Lawyer Conference in Berkeley, and attended a meditation retreat for lawyers in Spirit Rock in Northern California. Donn has also presented programs on meditation and mindfulness at three Arizona State Bar Conventions, the Arizona Judicial Conference, the Lawyers as Peacemakers and Healers Conference, the 2013 Finding Happiness in the Law Program, the 2015 Arizona Justice of the Peace Association as well as at the annual meeting of federal administrative law judges in Scottsdale in 2016. He has been selected to be vice president of the Mindfulness in Law Society, a national group of lawyers, law professors, law students and judges promoting mindfulness practices in the law.