Kimberly A Harris Ortiz

Arizona Attorney General

Judge Ortiz has been a Superior Court Judge in Pima County since July 2021, and previously was a Pro Tem Judge assigned to the Criminal Bench since November, 2018. She served on the Supreme Court Attorney Ethics Advisory Committee for four years, was on the Task Force that revised jury selection procedures, and is on the CJA Panel Selection Committee for U.S. District Court. Previously, she was a career prosecutor, most recently working as the Chief Counsel for the Arizona Attorney General’s So. Arizona White Collar & Criminal Enterprise Section from 2011-2018, and as an Assistant Attorney General from 1999-2011 prosecuting complex economic fraud, public corruption, illegal enterprise and racketeering crimes. From 1994-1999, Judge Ortiz worked on the U.S./Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona prosecuting felony cases for the Santa Cruz County Attorney’s Office. In 2018, the State Bar of Arizona awarded her the Michael C. Criminal Justice Award recognizing the criminal prosecutor who worked with professionalism, integrity, fairness, creativity and brilliance to represent the public’s interest and advance the principles of criminal justice. Judge Ortiz received her J.D. from the University of Arizona College of Law, where she taught Sentencing Law for a decade, and she was the Research Editor of the Arizona Law Review. She also received her undergraduate B.A. from Columbia University. She has a life-long obsession with English Labrador Retrievers, loves thrifting and estate sales, has too many on-going DIY house projects, enjoys watching Chopped and listening to true life crime podcasts, and is ultra-competitive in all word games.