Judge Pro Tempore

**Description**:
**This position's hourly rate will be $70, effective 7/1/2024.**

Conducts formal court hearings on misdemeanor, traffic, city code offenses and protective orders.

**Essential Functions**:
1. Presides over in-person and virtual proceedings on an as-needed/on-call basis.
2. Adjudicates misdemeanor, criminal traffic, civil traffic and city code violations.
3. Reviews and determines bond eligibility for defendants.
4. Presides over initial appearances, arraignments, pre-trial conferences, civil traffic
hearings, probation violation hearings, restitution hearings, jury and non-jury trials,
sentencings and sentence review hearings.
5. Reviews and grants search warrants.
6. Conducts hearings on petitions for orders of protection, injunctions prohibiting
harassment, and issues court orders.
7. Reviews and signs criminal complaints.
8. Researches, explains and applies laws, rules and regulations.
9. Assists the Presiding City Judge in administering court policies, procedures, and
practices.
10. Participates in judicial education as required.
11. Performs other related work as required.

**Minimum Qualifications/Special Requirements/Success Factors**:

- This position requires a Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited Law School and membership in the State Bar of Arizona in good standing for a minimum of five (5) years.-
No benefits provided