Hon. Kenneth Lee

Judge

Pima County Superior Court

Honorable Kenneth Lee was appointed to the Pima County Superior Court on April 17, 1997. He is currently assigned to the Probate Bench and currently serves as Presiding Judge of the Probate Bench. His prior bench assignments have been a civil assignment from 1997 to 2002, a criminal assignment from 2002 to 2006, a family law assignment from 2006 to 2008, a civil assignment from 2008 to 2013, and a criminal assignment from 2013 to 2018. He previously served two terms as the Civil Presiding Judge from 1999 to 2000 and 2008 to 2010. In addition, he served four terms as the Associate Presiding Judge from 2001 to 2002, 2004 to 2005, 2011 to 2014 and 2015 to 2018. Judge Lee is currently a member of the Arizona Supreme Court Steering Committee on Data-Based Court Performance and Data Standards and was previously on the Committee for Superior Courts. In the past, he has been a member of the Arizona State Bar Committees on Civil Jury Instructions and Civil Practice and Procedure. From 2000 to 2002 he served as secretary of the Arizona Judges Association. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Lee was trial attorney in Tucson for 16 years. He practiced at the firms of Davis and Eppstein, P. C. from 1981 to 1986 and Haralson, Kinerk & Morley from 1986 to 1997. The major areas of practice were plaintiffs’ medical malpractice and other complex, personal injury cases.