Karen J Hartman-Tellez

Senior Litigation Counsel

Office of Arizona Attorney General

KAREN J. HARTMAN-TELLEZ is Senior Litigation Counsel at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, where she represents the Secretary of State and other State officials in election matters. She has practiced law in Arizona for more than twenty years and has litigated constitutional, education, employment, civil rights, media, and political law issues. For the last fifteen years, a substantial portion of her practice has focused on representation of state and county officials, litigating matters at all levels of state and federal courts. Earlier in her career, she spent several years in private practice, where her practice focused on media, constitutional, voting rights, and federal Indian law. Karen graduated magna cum laude from the College of Law at Arizona State University. After obtaining her law degree, she completed a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Ruth V. McGregor, Vice Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.