Sean E Brearcliffe

Honorable Sean E. Brearcliffe was appointed to the Court of Appeals on September 20, 2017. At the time of his appointment, he had been serving as a trial judge on the Pima County Superior Court for nearly five years. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University, Hayward, and his law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. Before becoming a Judge, Judge Brearcliffe was in private practice as a senior litigation partner with Rusing Lopez & Lizardi, PLLC, in Tucson. His private practice for over 17 years was as a general commercial litigator, focusing on contract, insurance, construction, class-action, agriculture, and employment litigation. Judge Brearcliffe is the immediate past president of the Arizona Judges Association, past national Chairman of the Federal Bar Association’s Professional Ethics Committee and of the American Judges Association’s Ethics and Professionalism Committee, past President of the William D. Browning Tucson Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, past Chairman of the Pima County Bar Association’s Rules Committee, former member of the United States District Court’s Local Rules Advisory Committee, and an alumnus of the Morris K. Udall American Inns of Court.