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Sonia MARTINEZ

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Law Office of Sonia Martinez

625 w. southern ave, ste E

MESA AZ, AZ

t: 4802750537

soniamartinezlaw@gmail.com


SONIA MARTINEZ Sonia Martinez is Pascua Yaqui through her mother and Mexican through her father. For the past sixteen years, she has been the principal and owner of her own law firm in Mesa, Arizona. She also works in Indian Country and is licensed to practice in over 8 local tribal courts. She focuses her practice on representing tribal and non tribal members in their private family, dependency and criminal law matters and has handled a host of tribal governmental matters. She has also been working with small businesses and tribal governments respecting issues with the Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Act since 2010, and is the Vice President of the Arizona Cannabis Lawyer’s Association. Ms. Martinez graduated Magna Cum Laude from Southwestern Law School as a John J. Schumacher Minority Leader Scholar and earned special United States Congressional recognition for ‘Outstanding and Invaluable Public Service to the Community in 2004. She was appointed as a Judge Pro Tem for Maricopa County Justice Courts in 2020. Licensed to practice law first in California in 2004 and then Arizona in 2006, Ms. Martinez is the past Co-Chair of the Arizona State Bar Committee on Minorities and Women in the Law, Co-Chair of the 2015 State Bar Convention, Chair of the 2013 Minority Bar Convention, Past President of the Native American Bar Association of Arizona, and teaches a special seminar class at the ASU Indian Legal Program on representing criminal defendants in tribal court. Ms. Martinez also serves on the Board of Directors and is the Compliance Officer for the United Food Bank, past board member for Whisper & Thunder, and Board Member for MomForce USA. In addition, she is a panel member on the selection committee for the Arizona State Bar Leadership Institute, and presented as a panelist at dozens of educational seminars. She is also a team member for the Maricopa County Superior Court Judicial Performance Review Commission Conference Teams. Most importantly, she is a mother of two daughters, and grandmother of two
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