Sierra M Taylor

Sierra Taylor began her career at the Maricopa County Office of the Public Defender. She worked as a trial attorney handling all levels of felony cases, including drug possession to first-degree murder. She also formally supervised and trained new attorneys in their first year of practice and later was responsible for recruiting, supervising, and training the office’s legal externs and law clerks. She then worked for the State Bar of Arizona in lawyer discipline as bar counsel where she investigated allegations of ethical misconduct and handled formal complaints and reinstatement hearings in front of the Presiding Disciplinary Judge. She has since returned to indigent criminal defense, again handling trial cases of all types of felonies, at the Maricopa County Office of the Legal Advocate. Ms. Taylor also serves as adjunct faculty at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, teaching Criminal Law and Evidence. She is the co-author of the Arizona Criminal Law & Procedure with Forms treatise published by LexisNexis.