Hon. M. Jean Hoag (Ret.) was a judge for the Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona. She joined the bench in 1996. Hoag retired in 2011.
During her judicial tenure, she presided in the Family, Civil, Probate, and Juvenile Courts. She was also the Presiding Judge of the Southeast Regional Center and the Associate Presiding Juvenile Judge.
Prior to joining the bench, Hoag had worked for thirteen years as a deputy county attorney with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. As such, she prosecuted sex crimes and physical abuse cases. Before that, she was an assistant attorney general with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, having held an assignment in the Organized Crime Division.
Prior to relocating to Arizona in 1988, Hoag worked as an assistant county attorney for the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, during which time she prosecuted domestic violence cases.
She also taught as an adjunct faculty member at William Mitchell College of Law (1983 to 1988).
Hoag received a B.S. in secondary English education from Minnesota State University in 1969. She went on to complete a J.D. at William Mitchell College of Law (now the Mitchell Hamline School of Law) in 1982.
Hoag was admitted to practice in Minnesota (1982), Arizona (1988), and the United States District Court for the District of Arizona (1991).