Judge Joshua Heath

Joshua Heath is a member of the Chickasaw Nation. He has been a full-time judge for the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community Court since 2024. He was a member of the Wellness Court Planning Committee and now serves as the Wellness Court Judge. Previously, he served as a full-time judge for the Tulalip Tribe of Indians in Tulalip, WA, from 2019 to 2024 and as the court’s presiding Wellness Court Judge for several years. The Tulalip Wellness Court program served as a mentor court for both the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP, now called All Rise) and the Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) while he was the judge. He also assisted in developing the Tulalip Mental Health Alternatives Program (MHAP) and was the first judge to preside over the inaugural Tulalip MHAP Court program in 2022, before joining SRPMIC’s bench. This was the first tribal mental health wellness court program in the country. Prior to this, he was a full-time judge for the Puyallup Tribe of Indians in Tacoma, WA, from 2016-2019, a full-time judge for the Colorado River Indian Tribes in Parker, AZ, (2013-2016), and was a prosecutor for the City of Glendale, AZ, from 2010 to 2013. He was the Chief Justice of the Yavapai Apache Nation Court of Appeals from 2014-2018, the Chief Justice of the Makah Tribal Court of Appeals from 2020-2025 and has been an appellate panelist for the Northwest Intertribal Court System (NICS) since 2020, which serves a number of tribal appellate courts in the Pacific Northwest. He is admitted to the Arizona and Washington State Bars, as well as to several tribal bars. He graduated with his J.D. from Regent University School of Law (cum laude) in 2010 and earned his B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Grand Canyon University (summa cum laude) in 2006.