My full name is Gerald F. Giordano, Jr.

I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November 1967. My family moved to Tucson, Arizona in the summer of 1973 and, with brief exceptions, I have lived in Tucson ever since.

I’ve been married since 1990. My wife and I have four children ranging in age from 15 to 29 (as of October 2024).

I attended Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson, graduating in 1985 as a National Merit Scholar. I graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, California in 1989, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, majoring in Mathematical Economics. After a year of graduate study in math at the University of Arizona, I began working in Tucson as an accountant.

I continued my education at the University of Arizona College of Law, starting in 1995 and graduating in 1998, summa cum laude. I was admitted to the State Bar of Arizona later in 1998, and have practiced as a civil litigation lawyer in Arizona for about 26 years. My legal practice has been with the following firms:

• Meyer Hendricks & Bivens (Phoenix, Arizona): 1998-2000
• Snell & Wilmer (Tucson, Arizona): 2000-2008
• Dorris & Giordano (Tucson, Arizona): 2008-2017
• Goldstein & Scopellite (Tucson, Arizona): 2017
• Lancer Law, aka Giordano & Heckele (Tucson, Arizona): 2017-Present

I became a Christian believer in 2004. I generally considered myself an atheist prior to 2001, then something of an unspecified deist from 2001 to 2004, before coming to faith in Jesus Christ at CDO Baptist Church. I eventually became a Bible study teacher and leader of an adult Bible fellowship.

Politically, my youthful views were libertarian. I gradually transitioned to being a Republican, probably best classified as a Reaganite, by the mid-1990s. My views have changed substantially in the last four or five years, and while I continue to be registered as a Republican, I don’t fit neatly into any political category at present.