Jeffrey Rueter, Stephen Hopkins and Ronee Korbin Steiner have been appointed to the Maricopa County Superior Court. The appointments of Rueter, Hopkins, and Korbin Steiner were made to fill the vacancies created by the retirements of the judges Linda Miles, Robert Miles, and Boyd Dunn.
Before his appointment, Rueter served as a commissioner for the Maricopa County Superior Court for seven years, where he managed criminal cases, conducted settlement conferences and presided over jury trials. He also previously worked as an assistant attorney general and a deputy Maricopa County attorney, prosecuting various criminal cases.
Before opening his own law firm in 1995, Hopkins was a trial lawyer at Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P. for 10 years. He has practiced in the areas of construction, real estate, commercial, corporate and tort litigation. Mr. Hopkins is active with the State Bar of Arizona, having served on the Trial Practice Executive Council, Ethics Committee, and Civil Jury Instructions Committee. In addition, he has served as a judge pro tempore for the Maricopa County Superior Court and the Arizona Court of Appeals.
Korbin Steiner currently works as a family law attorney at her own firm, Korbin Steiner & Marquis. Ronee also serves as a judge pro tempore for the Maricopa County Superior Court. In 2010, Ronee received the Family Law Litigator of the Year Award from the Volunteer Lawyers Program, and was recognized as one of the top 50 pro bono lawyers of the year.