Monday, March 23, 2009
Derek Carlisle, 43, currently works in the Mohave County Attorney's Office. He has a bachelor's and a juris doctorate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and graduated with honors.
He interned at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and the Travis County Attorney's Office. He was accepted to the Arizona Bar in 1993 and worked for the Maricopa County Superior Court as a bailiff to tax court judge William Schafer until 1994, when he was hired by the Mohave County Attorney's Office.
Carlisle also assisted in rewriting the Mohave County Local Rules of Court in 2002 and 2008.
According to his application, Carlisle has had a few inquires about professional misconduct to the Arizona State Bar. However, the bar filed no charges.
He prosecuted the Robert Benjamin case in 2006. Benjamin shot to death his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. Benjamin accepted a plea agreement and was sentenced to life in prison.
Carlisle also has experience teaching other attorneys and has been a board member of the Kingman Boys and Girls Club. He was also nominated three times for felony prosecutor of the year award from the Arizona Prosecuting Attorneys' Advisory Council.
Ron Gilleo, 44, is the current Mohave County Legal Defender. He has a bachelor's of science in Justice Studies from Arizona State University and a juris doctorate from the University of Oklahoma.
He served as a detention officer and then a probation intern at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office from 1987 to 1992. He graduated from the academy as the cadet with the highest academic achievement. From 1992 to 1996, he served as a detention officer at the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office, then as an associate intern and attorney at Haralson and Associates from 1995 to 1996 and as a defense attorney intern at the University of Oklahoma's Criminal Defense Clinic in 1995. He then moved to the Mohave County Attorney's Office in 1996 and became the County Legal Defender in 2000.
Gilleo was admitted to the Arizona and Oklahoma State bars in 1996. He resigned from the Oklahoma Bar in 1998.
Gilleo has handled mostly criminal cases since arriving at the CAO in 1996, but while at Haralson and Associates he did handle civil cases such as collections and family law.
He ran for Division IV Judge in 2006 and lost.
Gilleo is also involved in the Kingman Boys and Girls Club as a basketball coach. He also coached basketball and Pop Warner Football for the city of Kingman Parks and Recreation Department, has been a Boy Scout leader and a church youth leader.
Lee Jantzen, 48, is the current Mohave County Superior Court Commissioner. He graduated from Midwestern State University in 1987 with a bachelors of arts and from the University of Wyoming College of Law with a juris doctorate in 1991. While in law school he wrote legislation for the Wyoming Attorney General's Crime Victim Compensation Staff. Some of the legislation written by Jantzen was passed by the Wyoming Legislature.
He was admitted to the Arizona State Bar in 1992 and the Florida Bar in 1999. He has retired from the Florida Bar.
Jantzen worked for the Mohave County Attorney's Office from 1992 to 1994, when he left to become an assistant city attorney for the City of Kingman. He returned to MCAO in 1996 and then left in 1999 to serve as an assistant state attorney for the Florida State Attorney's Office. He returned to MCAO in 2001 and in 2007 became a Superior Court Commissioner.
As commissioner Jantzen has handled a number of criminal as well as juvenile, juvenile drug court and fugitive cases.
Jantzen prosecuted the Ray Carlton case in 2005. Carlton and a 16-year-old girl stabbed and shot a woman to death on U.S. 93. Carlton was sentenced to life in prison.
Jantzen was one of several defendants sued for improper prosecution of an arson case in 2007. The case was dismissed in 2009.
Three charges of misconduct were filed against Jantzen with the Arizona State Bar in 1997, 1998 and 2004. In 1997, a defendant accused Jantzen of conspiring with a judge and defense counsel. In 1998, the mother of sexual assault defendant accused him of inappropriate conduct, and in 2004 a defendant in a stabbing case accused him of misleading the tribunal. Jantzen did not have to respond to the bar for any of the charges.
Jantzen has served as a member of the Board of the Mohave County Bar Association, the Court Appointed Special Advocate board, the Child Fatality Review Team and is a member of Rotary. He also coaches Little League, youth basketball and Teen Court. He was named Prosecutor of the Year in 1998 and 2004.
Thomas Jones, 40, is the only candidate that currently works outside of the county. Jones is a prosecutor for the La Paz County Attorney's Office. He graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona in 1994. In 1997, he graduated with a juris doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center.
He was admitted to practice law in the Arizona Supreme Court in 1997, in the United States District Court for Arizona in 2000, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal in 2001 and the U. S. Supreme Court in 2001.
Jones has worked as a Lake Havasu City Prosecutor, a Yuma County Attorney, had his own practice in Lake Havasu City and is currently the chief deputy criminal attorney for the La Paz County Attorney's Office.
He also has experience in bankruptcy, domestic relations, dependencies, juvenile, estate planning, guardianship, probate, personal injury, contract disputes and civil litigation.
Jones served in the U.S. Air Force, was a member of the Federalist Society, served as the Vice Chair of the Mohave County Bar Association, worked as member of the Volunteer Lawyer Program, served on the board of directors for the Community Legal Services Board and as chairman of the finance committee for the River Cities United Way. He was named Mohave County Pro Bono Attorney of the Year in 2006, Volunteer Lawyer Program Attorney of the Year in 2006 and Top 50 Pro Bono Attorneys in Arizona in 2007.
Steven Moss, 43, is a private attorney in Bullhead City. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University with bachelor's degree in 1992 and graduated cum laude with a juris doctorate from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Michigan in 1995.
During law school he worked in the Legal Aid of Central Michigan Office.
He was admitted to practice law in the Arizona State Supreme Court in 1995, the U.S. District Court for Arizona in 1997 and the Hualapai Tribal Court in 2000.
He has worked in private practice since 1996. His work has been primarily civil cases involving commercial transactions, contracts, real estate, construction, domestic relations, custody, estate planning and as a private arbitrator.
He recently settled a case for a client who was alleged to have sold a defective MRI to a customer.
He has also served as a school board member for the Colorado River Union High School District, in the U.S. Marine Corps, as a member of the Arizona Bar Association, a member of the Mohave County Bar, the Mohave County and Bullhead City Judicial Selection committees, as a volunteer attorney for Community Legal Services, Wills for Heroes and Seniors, and as a volunteer attorney for the Boys and Girls Club of the Colorado River. He is also a member of the Bullhead City Rotary Club, Bullhead City Meals on Wheels, the Shelter for Youth at Risk, Westcare Safehouse and on the advisory board to the Mohave County Probation Department.
He was named Pro Bono Attorney of the Year in 1997 and 2008, received the Outstanding Contribution Award in 2004 and the Pro Bono Service Award in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
He's a volunteer coach for his daughter's soccer team, a member of the Colorado River Republicans and an auxiliary member of the Colorado River Women's Republicans.
John Taylor, 52, is currently a judge in the Kingman/Cerbat Justice Court. He received a bachelor's of arts from Marshall University in 1980 and a juris doctorate from the University of Toledo in 1983. He was admitted to the Ohio State Bar in 1983 and the Arizona State Bar in 1986.
He worked in private practice in Ohio until 1985 and then joined the Mohave County Attorney's Office. In 1999, he became a judge in the Kingman/Cerbat Justice Court.
While working in private practice, Taylor handled civil, criminal, real estate, domestic relations and juvenile cases. As a judge, the majority of his cases have involved traffic or criminal matters.
As a judge, Taylor has had one suit filed against him in federal court. The case was dismissed.
Other complaints have been filed with the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, but no disciplinary action has been taken.
In the late 1980s, another defendant filed a complaint against him with the state bar alleging Taylor had violated the terms of plea agreement. The complaint was dismissed.
He was arrested for DUI in 1988; the conviction was later set aside.
He has served as a member of the Board for the Kingman Center for the Performing Arts, a member of the Mohave County Committee on Judicial Education and Training, the Arizona Supreme Court Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee, the ASC Committee on Public Access to the Courts and the Mohave County Courts Strategic Planning Committee.
He has also served as a legal advisor to Kingman Aid for Abused People, helped with the Boy Scouts, Pop Warner football and is Vice Chairman of the Kingman Area Meth Coalition.
He was awarded Mohave County Prosecutor of the Year in 1990.
Charlotte Wells, 61, is currently in private practice and represents the Northern Arizona Consolidated Fire District. Wells graduated with a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University in 1969 and a master's degree in education from ASU in 1970. She earned her juris doctorate in 1982 from the University of Arizona.
She was admitted to the Arizona Bar in 1982, the U.S. District Court in Arizona in 1983 and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1983.
Besides NACFD, Wells has worked as an attorney for Mohave Community College, the Mohave County Attorney's Office, the City of Kingman and in private practice.
She was appointed to the Mohave County Superior Court Division I seat in 2002 and served until 2003. Division I handles mostly civil cases in Bullhead City.
She is familiar with civil matters involving taxing districts, public governance, public accounting, public records, public meeting laws, election laws, employment, fire and safety codes, real estate, risk management, personal injury, contract, estate planning, probate, corporate, malpractice, insurance, family, municipal, planning and zoning and criminal laws.
In 1994 and 1995, Wells helped negotiate the renewal of Kingman's Colorado Water Allocation with the U.S. Department of Interior and helped create the Mohave County Water Authority.
In 1996, she helped with the contract for the city's wastewater treatment plant.
In 1996, she defended the city in a lawsuit brought by Mohave Disposal after the city annexed an area into the city limits. The case made its way to the Arizona Supreme Court. Mohave Disposal later dismissed it.
In 1984, she was arrested and convicted for DUI.
Wells served on the State Bar Board of Governors from 2000 to 2002, on the State Bar Member Assistance Committee and the State Bar Public Law Section, the Mohave County Merit Commission, the Mohave County Self-Insured Risk Board and the Mohave County Employee Benefits Trust Board.
She is also a member of the Mohave County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, was a member of the International Municipal Lawyers Association and the Arizona City Attorneys Association.
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