Maricopa resident Patricia Glover is running for the Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace position to help improve public access to the court system.

“I would like to get in there and hopefully make a difference,” said Glover, who recently filed her candidate statement of interest form with Pinal County Elections Department.

Glover, 38, is the second Republican to express interest for the post. Glenn Morrison, Pinal County constable, was the first to file. Glover or her Republican opponent would fill the seat of Lyle Riggs, who resigned in January after years of service.

Both candidates have until April 1 to file the 380 signatures from voter to make their candidacies official.

Glover has been in the legal field for 18 years, starting as a paralegal. She’s the founding owner of her own business, Glover Court Solutions & Estate Planning. She said it is the only such licensed company in Maricopa.

Her business assists people who can’t afford an attorney.

She lives with her family in The Villages at Rancho El Dorado.

Glover said her business’s goal has been to help give people better access to the legal system. She said she would like to carry her legal experience over to the JP court system.

She said as it is now, people who cannot afford an attorney are handed a “self-help package” of documents in the justice of the peace court “and they are not able to understand them.”

She said the “Average Joe” doesn’t understand the court process and needs legal assistance to get through it.

Her goal as justice of the peace would be to give people who can’t afford legal representation better access to the court system.

Glover said she would be taking a pay cut to run for justice of the peace. She would be required to excuse herself from her company to sit on the bench.

The justice of the peace position pays about $107,000 a year, county records show.

Glover said she has technology and business skills that would complement the justice of the peace position.

 

 

 

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