Navajo County Superior Courts
Division I
Hon. Thomas L. Wing
The Honorable Judge
Thomas L. Wing
Judge Thomas L. Wing is serving in his 18th year as a member of the Navajo County
Superior Court bench. His experience includes two years as Presiding Superior Court
judge and a member of the state-wide Superior Court Committee with the Arizona Office
of the Courts. He also served as Presiding Juvenile Court judge for more than ten
years. During the past five (5) years, Judge Wing has served as presiding judge
in Navajo County for civil and family law cases.
Before being elected to the bench in 1992, he was the lead prosecutor in the Navajo
County attorney's office where he worked for 15 1/2 years. He received the state
award of being the prosecutor of the year in Navajo County one year. His law career
began in Maricopa County in 1972 where he had a general practice of law for one
year, followed by 4 years of sole practice of civil and criminal law in Gila County.
Mr. Wing has been married to Beverly Larson Wing for 28 years and is a father to
ten children, including 3 step-sons. He has been an active member of his church
throughout his life and almost continuously has served as a teacher or leader for
either youth or adult groups. Those activities have included teaching Sunday School
classes for children ages 10 through 16 and adults of all ages. His community contributions
have included years as a volunteer youth basketball coach, referee for both youth
and adult softball, Boy Scouts of America leader , including Troop Committee, youth
advisor and District Chairman. He has received the B.S.A. District Award of Merit.
He also was a Rotary Club member for several years and served as club vice president.
In his profession, Mr. Wing served for two years on a state-wide committee which
succeeded in the passage of the Arizona constitutional amendment which established
victims rights in criminal cases. During his approximately 10 years as presiding
juvenile court judge he was an active proponent of the Navajo County C.A.S.A. program
for children and its support group, Friends of C.A.S.A. He also was the leader in
Navajo County's construction of a modern 42-bed juvenile detention facility which
opened in 2002, and was re-named the Juvenile Restoration Center.
Judge Wing's college education began with understudies in journalism and education
at Arizona State University, where he received awards for his outstanding contributions
to the college newspaper, State Press. He went on to study law at Marquette University
in Milwaukee, Wis., where he received the Juris Doctorate degree in 1972. During
his law studies, he interrupted his education to serve two years in the U. S. Army,
including 13 months in Viet Nam where he was assigned to the 498th Medical Evacuation
Company.
Contact
(928) 524-4213
Judicial Assistant - Heather Smith
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