Arizona Supreme Court Review November 8, 2017 Faculty Biographies CHIEF JUSTICE SCOTT BALES joined the Arizona Supreme Court in 2005 and became Chief Justice in 2014. Before joining the Court, he had practiced law in Arizona for 20 years as both a public and private lawyer. His strategic agenda, Advancing Justice Together: Courts and Communities, focuses on promoting access to justice and civil and criminal justice reforms. From 2001-2005, he worked at Lewis and Roca LLP, where his practice focused on appellate and complex litigation. As Arizona’s Solicitor General from 1999-2001, he handled major appeals in state and federal court, oversaw the enforcement of Arizona election laws, and supervised the preparation of legal opinions on issues concerning state government. Justice Bales also was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Policy Development, a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office in Phoenix, and a Special Investigative Counsel for the Justice Department’s Inspector General. He clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Joseph T. Sneed III on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. After graduating from Michigan State University with degrees in history and economics, he received a master’s degree in economics and his law degree from Harvard. JAMES E. BARTON practices political and government relations law at Torres Law Group, PLLC. His clients include political committees formed by Arizona trade unions, independent expenditure committees, and the Arizona Democratic Party. Most recently, Jim represented Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy Families in defending Proposition 206 and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 99 in successfully challenging HB 2579’s restrictions on municipalities setting minimum benefits within their geographic boundaries. Before joining Torres Law Group, Jim represented the Citizens Clean Elections Commission and the Arizona Secretary of State as an Assistant Attorney General in the Arizona Solicitor General’s Office. JUSTICE CLINT BOLICK was appointed by Governor Doug Ducey in January 2016 to serve on the Arizona Supreme Court. Prior to joining the Court, Justice Bolick litigated constitutional cases in state and federal courts from coast to coast, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Among other positions, he served as Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute and as Co-founder and Vice President for Litigation at the Institute for Justice. He has litigated in support of school choice, freedom of enterprise, private property rights, freedom of speech, and federalism, and against racial classifications and government subsidies. Justice Bolick received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California at Davis, where he has been recognized as a distinguished alumnus, and his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Drew University. He serves as a research fellow with the Hoover Institution. Among other honors, he was named one of the 90 Greatest DC Lawyers in the Last 30 Years by Legal Times in 2008, received a Bradley Prize in 2006, and was recognized as one of the nation’s three lawyers of the year by American Lawyer in 2002 for his successful defense of school vouchers in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. Justice Bolick is a prolific author of a dozen books and hundreds of articles. Among his most recent books are Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution, co-authored with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush; and David’s Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary. JUSTICE ROBERT M. BRUTINEL is an associate justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court in 2010, he served for the previous 15 years as a Superior Court judge in Yavapai County. He received his J.D. from the University of Arizona in 1982, and a B.S. in Economics from Arizona State University in 1979. He currently serves on the Arizona Juvenile Justice Commission and as chair of the Adoption and Foster Care System Improvement Committee/Court Improvement Advisory Workgroup. He also chairs the Juvenile Dependency Advisory Commission. He is a member of the Arizona Judges Association, the Yavapai County Bar Association, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the Arizona Women Lawyers’ Association, and the American Bar Association. KIMBERLY A. DEMARCHI is a partner in the Phoenix office of Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie, where she represents clients in civil appeals and in the litigation of complex matters. Kim represents clients at all stages of litigation, with a particular emphasis on litigating complex motions, advising clients and trial counsel on how to preserve and position issues for appeal, and briefing and arguing appellate cases. She also assists clients in obtaining time- sensitive relief from the court system, including temporary and preliminary injunctive relief, interlocutory and expedited appeals, and special actions. A substantial part of Kim’s practice involves issues of government law, including representing state, local, and tribal governments in administrative and court proceedings and advising a wide range of clients on compliance with campaign finance, election, lobbying, open meeting, public record, and procurement laws. She is a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, is the volunteer coordinator for the Arizona Court of Appeals’ Pro Bono Program in Division One, and has previously served as chair of the State Bar of Arizona’s Appellate Practice Section. Prior to joining her firm, Ms. Demarchi served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ruth V. McGregor of the Arizona Supreme Court and the Honorable Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is a native of Tucson, Arizona and a graduate of Arizona State University’s Honors College and the Yale Law School. DOMINIC E. DRAYE is the Solicitor General of Arizona. In that capacity, he is the State’s lead appellate lawyer, representing Arizona in a range of cases including defense of the State’s identity-theft laws against claims of federal preemption and leading a ten-State coalition challenging EPA’s 2015 ozone regulations. Prior to his current position, Mr. Draye worked in the Washington, DC, office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. At Kirkland, his practice focused on legal issues and appeals. Before joining the firm, Draye clerked for Hon. Edith H. Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School. ERIC M. FRASER is a partner at Osborn Maledon. His practice focuses on appeals and intellectual property litigation. He is a member of the Executive Councils of the Appellate Practice Section, Intellectual Property Section, and Antitrust Section of the State Bar. Eric is a contributor to SCOTUSblog, coedits the AzAPP blog, and is a coauthor of the Appellate Highlights column in Arizona Attorney magazine. In 2013, the New York Times featured his research on appellate jurisdiction. Eric studied Physics at Pomona College. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He clerked for Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. EILEEN DENNIS GILBRIDE is the senior partner in the appellate group at Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, P.L.C., concentrating her practice on federal and state appellate matters and dispositive motions. She also counsels and assists trial lawyers in their practices, from the answer stage through the post-trial motion stage. Eileen has handled more than 400 appeals at every level of the state and federal courts, in Arizona and other states, which have resulted in over 80 published decisions. Substantive areas of her appeals have included constitutional, contracts, torts, insurance coverage and defense, employment, municipal and school defense, civil rights, prisoner cases, professional malpractice, Indian law, legislative, administrative, personal injury, wrongful death, divorce, child custody and support, property rights and trusts. Eileen is a former Judge Pro Tempore, a past Chair of the State Bar Appellate Practice Section, a past Chair of the Arizona Supreme Court Committee on Examinations, and is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®, Southwest Super Lawyers, Arizona’s Finest Lawyers, Corporate Counsel’s “Top Lawyers,” and Best Arizona Attorneys. Eileen is a graduate of the Cornell University Law School, and she clerked for Hon. D.L. Greer on the Arizona Court of Appeals and for Hon. Thomas A. Zlaket on the Arizona Supreme Court. JUSTICE ANDREW W. GOULD was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in 2017 after serving 5 years on Division One of the Arizona Court of Appeals. Prior to his appointment to the Court of Appeals, Justice Gould spent 11 years as a Judge of the Superior Court in Yuma County, where he served as both Associate Presiding Judge and Presiding Judge. He received his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in 1990. He began his legal career in Phoenix, Arizona, practicing in the field of civil litigation. In 1994, he became a Deputy County Attorney, prosecuting major criminal cases for Yuma and Maricopa Counties. He served as Chief Civil Deputy for the Yuma County Attorney’s Office from 1999- 2001. Justice Gould has previously served on the Arizona Supreme Court Commission on Technology, as the President of the Arizona Judges’ Association, and has taught at the Judicial Conference and New Judge Orientations. Justice Gould currently sits as the Chair on the Committee on Judicial Ethics and Training and as a member of the Glendale Judicial Selection Board. CHARLES A. GRUBE is a 1980 graduate of the Harvard Law School and has a B.A. with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Rising from humble beginnings as a junior litigation associate in a large Midwestern law firm, he has been a big firm lawyer, a medium-firm lawyer and a small-firm lawyer, as well as a bank lawyer and, for the last twenty years, an assistant attorney general and Senior Agency Counsel for the State of Arizona.