Frankie Y Jones

Municipal Court Judge

Phoenix Municipal Court

currently practices at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office since 1998 and became Bureau Chief of the Probation Violation Bureau in 2005. She has worked in Preliminary Hearing, Trial, Charging and Special Crimes bureaus. She was an associate at Stender and Larkin and practiced immigration law focusing on deportation defense and family petitions and was the associate attorney in charge of the family immigration department and family petitions. Frankie, also practiced criminal defense mainly in DUI in various municipal and justice courts. Prior to that she was an associate at the Law Office of Marshall Tandy where she practiced immigration law before the Immigration Court as well as criminal defense cases. Criminal cases included both misdemeanors and felony cases, ranging from DUI to felony drug cases. Frankie is chair of the State Bar of Arizona Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee. She also serves on the State Bar of Arizona Conflict Case Committee, the State Bar of Arizona Peer Review Committee and the Arizona Supreme Court Committee on Minorities in the Judiciary. She received her Juris Doctorate from Creighton University School of Law in 1993, and her Bachelor of Arts from Creighton University College of Arts and Sciences in 1990, where she majored in Political Science and minored in business. She was admitted to the State Bar of Arizona in 1994 and the United States District Court District of Arizona October on 1996. (5/2015)