Ted Stuart Reed

The Honorable Ted S. Reed serves as Presiding Judge of Superior Court in Coconino County. Judge Reed was elected to Division 1 beginning in 2019. Judge Reed served as a full-time judge pro tem for Superior Court in Coconino County, Division 6, from 2011 through 2018. Judge Reed is currently assigned a criminal caseload, and has previously been assigned domestic relations, civil, probate, and juvenile delinquency caseloads. Judge Reed has presided over Coconino County Recovery Court since 2013.

Judge Reed was raised on a working ranch in rural Alaska. He completed his undergraduate degree in Flagstaff at Northern Arizona University, majoring in Criminal Justice and Psychology. Judge Reed continued his education at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law.

Upon graduating from law school, Judge Reed worked as a felony prosecutor at the Coconino County Attorney’s Office. After four years as a prosecutor, he went into private practice by founding the law firm of Reed, Antol & Hance, P.C. in Flagstaff, Arizona. While in private practice, he focused on criminal defense and family law. He served as a contract public defender in Coconino, Mohave and Yavapai Counties.

Judge Reed taught at Northern Arizona University from 2005 through 2009 in the Department of Criminal Justice and the U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement Academy. Judge Reed taught in the subjects of Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, Evidence, Trial Practice, and Constitutional Law.

Judge Reed serves as the chair of the Coconino County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. Judge Reed is a member of the Arizona Judicial Council’s Committee on Superior Court and Committee on Probation.