Jeffrey Louis Sklar

Hon. Jeffrey L. Sklar graduated from the University of Arizona and the University of Southern
California Gould School of Law. 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 in 2010 to work at the Tucson office of what was then known as Lewis
& Roca, where he remained 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. He remained as
presiding family judge until December 2022, when Governor Ducey appointed him to the Arizona Court
of Appeals.
Judge Sklar lives in Tucson with his wife and three children.