Bridget S Bade

Bade was born Bridget Ann Shelton in Phoenix in 1965. Bade received a B.A. summa cum laude from Arizona State University in 1987 and a J.D. from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in 1990. After graduating from law school, Bade clerked for Judge Edith Jones on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and then joined the Department of Justice in the Environmental Torts Litigation Section of the Civil Division. In 1995, Bade returned to Arizona to be a Shareholder at Beshears Wallwork Bellamy in Phoenix (the firm would later merge with Steptoe and Johnson). Eleven years later, she moved to become a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona. Bade has spent the last six years serving as U.S. Magistrate Judge in the District of Arizona.