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The Honorable Joseph C. Welty is the Presiding Judge of the Judicial Branch in Maricopa County, where he has supervisory authority over the Superior Court and Adult and Juvenile Probation Offices and oversite authority over all lower courts in Maricopa County. Judge Welty was appointed to the bench in 2007 and has served in each of the four major departments of the Superior Court. Prior to becoming a judge, he was an AUSA with the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona for 16 years, where he served as the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Section and the Chief of the National Security Section. Judge Welty was an adjunct professor at ASU and has taught extensively on a broad range of topics for the U.S. Department of Justice and the State Bar of Arizona, and for several years co-chaired the New Judge Orientation Program for the Arizona Supreme Court. He has served on numerous Supreme Court Committees and chaired the Supreme Court’s Criminal Rules Task Force and the Task Force on Rule 32 of the Arizona Rules of Criminal Procedure. Judge Welty was born and raised in Phoenix, and received his BA from Loyola Marymount University and his JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.
*The State Bar of Arizona does not approve or accredit CLE activities for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education requirement. This activity may qualify for up to 0.0 hour toward your annual CLE requirement for the State Bar of Arizona, including 0 hour of professional responsibility.
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