Nicholas Klingerman

Office of the Attorney General

is the Training and Post Conviction Division Chief Counsel at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. Nick is a career prosecutor who has specialized in appellate litigation, prosecuting notable cases such as State v. Goudeau, 239 Ariz. 421 (2016), and State v. Pandeli, 242 Ariz. 175 (2017). Before joining the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, Nick was the Chief Counsel for the Arizona Attorney General's Southern Arizona White Collar and Criminal Enterprise Section in Tucson, where he oversaw prosecutions involving complex economic frauds, illegal enterprises, and racketeering.

Nick received his JD from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of law in 2010, where he was the Case Notes Editor for the Arizona Law Review and graduated summa cum laude and Order of the Coif. He was later a part-time professor of practice at the College of Law from 2018 until 2022, teaching sentencing law and supervising the Attorney General Prosecution Clinic. After graduating from law school, Nick clerked the Honorable Maurice Portley in the Arizona Court of Appeals.