DENISE M. BAINTON is a Shareholder in the Firm's Tucson office.  Her practice emphasizes school law and employment matters.  Ms. Bainton joined the Firm in 1984 after serving one year as Law Clerk to a United States District Court judge in Phoenix. From 1971 through 1980, she taught in the Flowing Wells schools in Tucson. She has represented school districts on a wide variety of issues including litigation involving handicapped students, personnel matters and environmental litigation. She also has represented public and private entities before federal and state administrative agencies and in state and federal court.  She is a member of the NSBA Council of School Attorneys, the ASBA Council of School Attorneys, and the National Association of College and University Attorneys.  She currently is serving a five year appointment by the Governor as a lay member of the Board of Psychologist Examiners, which regulates the licensing and discipline of psychologists in the state.  She is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Law.  Ms. Bainton has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Music Education and is a graduate (with highest distinction) of the University of Arizona College of Law.  While in law school, she served as an editor of the Arizona Law Review, and received the Dannie Lee Chandler Award for Special Contribution to the Advancement of First Amendment Values, the Lorna E. Lockwood Memorial Award for Outstanding Female Law Student, and the American Jurisprudence Award for Constitutional Law.  She was admitted to the Arizona Bar in 1983 and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

dbainton@dmyl.com
520-322-5000