Marianne T Bayardi

Maricopa County Attorney

Honorable Marianne Bayardi became the Presiding Judge of the Scottsdale City Court in 2022. Prior to joining the City of Scottsdale, she served for 15 years both as an Associate Judge and as Assistant Presiding Judge of the Phoenix Municipal Court. She presides over criminal misdemeanor and civil protective order cases. Judge Bayardi is Dean of the Judicial College of Arizona. She is a member of the Arizona Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Education and Training, the Committee on Limited Jurisdiction Courts, the Commission on Diversity, Equality and Justice in the Judiciary, and the Judicial Conference Planning Committee. She has participated as faculty, facilitator and panel member in a variety of settings including: the Arizona Judicial Conference; the State Bar Professionalism Course; Limited Jurisdiction New Judge Orientation; and the Arizona State Bar Convention, among others.

Marianne was born near Chicago, Illinois and raised in Phoenix. She graduated from Arizona State University with a B.S. in Political Science and earned her J.D. from the University of Arizona College of Law. Before joining the bench, Judge Bayardi worked as an associate for the law firm of Robbins & Green, as in-house counsel for State Farm at Steven J. Wells and Associates, as a felony prosecutor for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, as a civil litigator for the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, and as an Administrative Law Judge at the Office of Administrative Hearings. Marianne and her wife Jenni have three adult children as well as several cats and dogs.