Joy Herr-Cardillo joined University of Arizona Law full time in 2017 after teaching as a part-time professor of practice since 2002. Professor Herr-Cardillo spent 15 years as a commercial litigator in Tucson before spending 18 years as the staff attorney in the Tucson office of the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, where she worked on a range of legal issues including environmental law, government accountability, public education, and direct democracy. She has written on environmental law topics. Herr-Cardillo is a graduate of the University of Michigan and is an Arizona Law alumna.