Dorinda M. Lang

Dorinda M. Lang has been presiding over administrative hearings for state administrative agencies since 1991. Prior to coming to the Office of Administrative Hearings in July 1999, she was a Hearing Officer III at the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Administration Office of Grievances and Appeals and a Hearing Officer II at the Department of Economic Security Office of Appeals. Judge Lang received her undergraduate degree in history from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and her Jurisdoctorate from the University of South Dakota School of Law in Vermillion, South Dakota. She was in the private practice of law from 1987 to 1990, specializing in the general practice of law, accepting cases in family law, contract, employment and general litigation. She has also worked as a legal educator, conducting seminars and junior college classes in health care law, contracts, legal research and legal writing.