Community member and attorney Judy Schaffert talks about judicial integrity, its appearance on this year’s ballot, what’s at stake, and what it entails.
Judy Schaffert, a longtime member of Temple Solel in Paradise Valley, studied as a member of the Wexner Foundation Heritage Program, mentors with the Women’s Leadership Institute, and has taught at Arizona Limmud and the Arizona Bar Foundation. A retired career civil servant, she served most recently as chief staff attorney of the Arizona Supreme Court. Before that, practiced law as an assistant Arizona Attorney General and clerked for Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice William A. Holohan. A native of New Jersey, she earned a B.A. from Yale in English, and her JD from the UCLA School of Law. Judy is also a past president of the National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys, the Jess Schwartz Jewish Community High School, the Jewish Tuition Organization, and Temple Solel. She and her husband Mike have two adult sons.
