Joseph Citelli

has served as the Registrar's Chief Counsel since November, 2019, and has been with the agency since March 2016. Citelli also serves as a Young Lawyers Division Representative to the State Bar of Arizona Construction Law Section. Citelli is also a 2019 Flinn-Brown Fellow and successfully completed a program sponsored by the Flinn Foundation and the Thomas R. Brown Foundations to help expand the cadre of Arizonans in state leadership positions with the knowledge, skills, and commitment to address the state's critical long-term issues. Citelli graduated from the University of California in Davis with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Communications in 2010. He received his Juris Doctor from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in 2015 where he received recognition as a Willard H. Pedrick Scholar. While in law school, Citelli served as Editor-in-Chief of the Sports and Entertainment Journal. Citelli was also a member of the Corporate and Business Law Society and Sports and Entertainment Law Society. Before coming to the AZ ROC, Citelli worked as a law clerk for Napier, Coury and Baillie, P. C. Law focusing on administrative, employment, and personal injury law. He also clerked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Daniel P. Collins in the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Arizona.