Jon W. Thompson (1954 – July 22, 2019) was a Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals from 1995 until his death in 2019.
Thompson attended Glendale Community College before earning a bachelor's degree from Northern Arizona University in 1975 and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado in 1979.
He then served as a judge pro tempore for the Coconino County Superior Court and worked in private practice in Flagstaff.
At the time of his death, Thompson was the state's second-longest serving appellate judge.
[2][3] In 2018, Thompson authored a decision that rendered cannabis extracts like hash oil illegal,[4][5] the state supreme court eventually reversed.