Jeffrey Louis Sklar

Judge Sklar was born in Los Angeles and moved to Tucson during grade school. He graduated from Salpointe Catholic High School, the University of Arizona, and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. At the UA, he was editor in chief of the Arizona Daily Wildcat, and at USC, he was executive notes editor of the Southern California Law Review. After graduating law school in 2007, he returned to Arizona to clerk for Justice Scott Bales of the Arizona Supreme Court. He then began work as an associate at the Los Angeles law firm of Irell & Manella.

Judge Sklar returned to Arizona yet again in 2010, this time to work at the Tucson office of the Lewis & Roca law firm. He became a partner in 2015. He remained at the firm until 2021, when Gov. Doug Ducey appointed him to the Arizona Superior Court in Pima County. On the Superior Court, Judge Sklar served rotations on both the civil bench and family bench. In July 2022, he was appointed as presiding judge of the family bench. In that capacity, he also began serving on the statewide Family Court Improvement Committee. He remained as presiding family judge until December 2022, when Gov. Ducey appointed him to the Arizona Court of Appeals.

Judge Sklar lives in Tucson with his wife and three children.