Samuel A Thumma
Judge
Arizona Court of Appeals - Division One
SAMUEL ANDERSON THUMMA. Vice Chief Judge (2015-present) and Judge (2012-present), Arizona Court of Appeals. Judge, Arizona Superior Court (2007-2012). Nationally, Sam is a Uniform Law Commissioner, where he Chairs the Drafting Committee on Employee and Student Online Protection and Privacy; is an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW (THIRD) OF TORTS: LIABILITY FOR ECONOMIC LOSS; Chairs the American Bar Association’s Judicial Division Technology Committee; is a member of the ABA’s Judicial Division Ethics & Professionalism Committee and is a member of the Planning Committee for the Appellate Judges Education Institute. In Arizona, Sam is Co-Chair/Co-Editor of the ARIZONA APPELLATE HANDBOOK; is Co-Chair of the Arizona Supreme Court’s Committee on the Rules of Evidence; is a member of Arizona’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee; is a member of the State Bar of Arizona’s Civil Recommended Arizona Jury Instructions Committee and has served as Chair of the State Bar’s Civil Practice and Procedure Committee; Chair of the Fee Arbitration Committee and as a member of the Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct (the “Ethics Committee”). He has presented at more than 230 seminars, and published 9 law review articles and more than 35 other law-related articles. Previously, Sam was a partner at Perkins Coie Brown & Bain, P.A., and an associate at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. He served as a law clerk for Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Stanley G. Feldman and Judge David R. Hansen, United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. Sam graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1988, where he was a Note & Comment Editor on the IOWA LAW REVIEW, and from Iowa State University in 1984, where he was a Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholar.
