Ann Ordway JD, Ph.D., NCC

Ann Ordway is a counselor educator with the University of Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona, where she teaches graduate-level students in the counseling department. She has been a family law attorney for more than 25 years, retired from private practice, and is a nationally certified counselor (NCC), continuing to work in the fields of parenting coordination and child advocacy. In 1991, she co-founded the Battered Women’s Legal Advocacy Project in Morris County, New Jersey, which provides pro bono legal representation for victims of domestic violence. Her doctoral dissertation on the experiences of parenting coordinators working with high conflict couples engaged in intimate partner violence dynamics is the foundation of her current research. Dr. Ordway has been a member of the AFCC Board of Directors since 2015. She is the Co-Chair of the Chapters Committee, the reporter for the current AFCC Parenting Coordination Task Force, and a former president of the New Jersey Chapter. She resides in Gilbert, Arizona with her husband and the two youngest of her 9 children.