PHOENIX, AZ — Lacey Gard has been appointed to the Pinal County Superior Court by Governor Doug Ducey to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Stephen McCarville.
Gard has spent nearly her entire career serving at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. She is currently Deputy Solicitor General and Chief Counsel of the Capital Litigation Section. This Section represents the state in all post-sentencing lawsuits filed by death row inmates.
Gard also oversees all federal habeas corpus litigation filed by all other inmates.
Prior to becoming Chief Counsel of the Capital Litigation Section, Gard was the Section’s Unit Chief Counsel from 2010 to 2015 and an Assistant Attorney General in the same Section from 2007 to 2010. From 2004 to 2007, she served in the Criminal Appeals Section. In 2013, she received the Arizona Attorney General’s Office Attorney of the Year Award.
While working in the Attorney General’s Office, Gard taught advanced legal writing and appellate advocacy from 2012 to 2016 at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.
Gard began her career as a law clerk to Judge J. William Brammer in the Arizona Court of Appeals.
Gard graduated from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in political science and minoring in psychology.