Governor Doug Ducey today announced the appointment of Jeffrey Louis Sklar to fill a vacancy on the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division II. Sklar’s appointment fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Philip Espinosa.
Sklar is currently the Presiding Judge on the family law bench of the Pima County Superior Court. Prior to his rotation to the family law bench, Jeffrey was assigned to the civil law bench. Before his appointment to the Superior Court, Jeffrey was a partner at Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie, where he was a commercial litigator.
Before joining Lewis Roca, Sklar practiced at Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, California after clerking for then Justice Scott Bales of the Arizona Supreme Court.
Sklar graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism & Political Science where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Arizona Daily Wildcat. Jeffrey received his law degree from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law where served as an Executive Notes Editor on the Southern California Law Review.