john roll life

John McCarthy Roll was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District 

of Arizona. He joined the court in 1991 after being nominated by President George H.W. Bush. 

Roll was the former Chief Judge, serving as the court's lead judicial administrative officer in conjunction 

with the Clerk of Court on the court's day to day operations. Roll was shot and killed 

on January 8, 2011, in Tucson, Arizona[1].

Roll began his career as a Bailiff in the Pima County Superior Court from 1972 to 1973. 

Roll also became an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Tucson in 1973. Later that year, 

Roll became the Deputy County Attorney for Pima County, prosecuting criminal cases until 1980.

 In 1980, Roll joined the US Attorney's Office as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Arizona until 1987. 

While with the US Attorney's Office,

 Roll led the organized drug crimes task force, specializing in large drug cases, from 1982 to 1986.

 Roll was also the lead civil attorney for the Arizona US Attorney's Office from 1986 to 1987. 

Then from 1987 to 1991, Roll was appointed as a State Appeals Court Judge in the Division Two Arizona Court of Appeals. 

Roll was named the Presiding Judge for the Division Two Court of Appeals from 1988 to 1991 before becoming vice chief judge in 1991. 

Later in 1991, Roll was a Criminal Superior Court Judge in the Pima County before his nomination to the Federal Bench in 1991. 

Roll also served as a clinical instructor for the University of Arizona College of Law from 1978 to 1979.

In 2009, Judge Roll faced death threats after presiding over a $32 million civil-rights lawsuit. 

The lawsuit was filed by illegal immigrants against an Arizona rancher. After Judge Roll ruled 

that the case would be certified, threats came from talk-radio shows which fueled controversy and spurred audiences into making threats against the judge[3].

After one radio talk show, Judge Roll's name logged more than 200 phone calls as some callers threatened the judge and his family[3]. T

his resulted in the judge and his wife being placed under a full-time protective detail for one month. A US Attorney's investigation identified four men 

as the makers of the threats, but no charges were filed[3].

In a July 9, 2009 interview with the Arizona Republic, Judge Roll described the time under high security as "unnerving and invasive. . . . 

By its nature it has to be," Roll said. Roll also said, "It (the security) was handled very professionally by the Marshals Service."

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