Know Your Judge: Susan Ritchie Bolton

This week in Know Your Judge, we feature Susan Ritchie Bolton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.

Bolton joined the federal bench in 2000 after she was nominated by President Bill Clinton. She spent the previous decade, from 1989 to 2000, as an Arizona state judge. Bolton assumed senior status in 2016.

Bolton presided over a hearing in 2016 where the Justice Department said it would bring criminal contempt charges against Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio in connection with his alleged flouting of a federal court order related to his immigration enforcement practices. Arpaio, who ...