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Judge B. Michael Dann
JUDGE B. MICHAEL DANN
served for twenty years as a trial judge in Maricopa County (Phoenix), Arizona. He was the court's presiding judge for five years. He chaired the Arizona Supreme Court's Committee on More Effective Use of Juries and has spoken in over 30 states and in four other countries in support of the kinds of trial innovations and reforms adopted and used in Arizona. He received the 1997 Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence at the U.S. Supreme Court for his national work in jury trial reform. After he retired from the bench in June 2000, he joined the National Center for State Courts as a Visiting Fellow.
Judge Dann received his education at Indiana University (B.S.), Harvard Law School (LL.B.) and University of Virginia Law School (LL.M.).
His articles on juries and jury trial innovations include "Learning Lessons" and "Speaking Rights": Creating Educated and Democratic Juries, 68 Indiana Law Journal 1229 (1993); Jury Reform: The Arizona Experience, 79 Judicature 280 (1996)(co-author); From the Bench: Free the Jury, 23 Litigation 5 (1996); Waking Up Jurors, Shaking Up Courts, Trial Magazine, July 1997, at 20; and How Judges View Civil Juries, 48 DePaul Law Review 247 (1998)(co-author).
He has also spoken on judicial leadership and court management topics, including team building and caseflow management.
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