Claudia M. González Jiménez received her Juris Doctorate from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.  She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish Literature from Emory University.  She began her law practice representing immigrant unaccompanied minors as a Staff Attorney for the non-profit organization The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP).  She went on to practice criminal defense for the Office of the Yuma County Legal Defender and represented indigent clients in felony criminal matters.  Claudia continued to serve her community as a prosecutor for the Yuma County Attorney’s Office.  As part of her duties in the Major Crimes Unit, she prosecuted high-profile cases involving child sex crimes and homicides.  In this capacity, she established strong working relationships with state, federal, and international agencies to successfully bring cases to trial.

Claudia has served as the President of the Western Chapter of the Arizona Women’s Lawyers Association.  She is also a graduate of the Arizona State Bar’s 2018-2019 Bar Leadership Institute, a professional development program.  As part of her efforts to empower youth in the law, she has presented as a guest speaker for criminal justice classes at Cibola High School, Kofa High School, and Arizona Western College.  In 2017, Claudia resurrected the Arizona High School Mock Trial Program for Region One.  She currently serves as Region One’s Mock Trial Coordinator for the State of Arizona and for the Yuma County Bar Association.  Prior to entering the legal field, Claudia was a middle school and high school teacher at Phoenix Country Day School.  She also taught English courses at the Seoul Language Institute in Seoul, South Korea for a year.  Claudia currently serves as a board member for Campesinos Sin Fronteras, which specializes in serving farm workers and the low-income Hispanic community