Diane M. Johnsen was a Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, having been appointed to the post in August 2006 by Governor Janet Napolitano.
[4] Johnsen received her Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from the University of Arizona in 1975.
[3] After leaving law school, Johnsen was a clerk to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Benjamin Cushing Duniway.
She was a commercial litigation attorney at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles, California from 1983 to 1985 and at Osborn Maledon in Phoenix, Arizona from 1985 to 2006.
[3] Johnsen was a board member of the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest from 1993 to 2006 and the Children's Action Alliance from 2004 to 2006.