Ashley Oddo
Deputy Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR)
Ashley Oddo brings a rare blend of legal precision and visionary leadership to her role as Deputy Director of the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR). Since her appointment in October 2024, she has been pivotal in steering critical initiatives and ensuring system-wide accountability across the Department.
Before assuming this leadership post, Ashley served as General Counsel for ADCRR, where she demonstrated exceptional problem-solving capabilities—navigating landmark challenges including a federal court injunction and driving critical policy revisions.
In her current capacity, Ashley is instrumental in forging cross-sector collaboration and delivering results. She contributes to the Governor’s Reentry 2030 Initiative, a bipartisan effort to improve support and enhance public safety, and helps lead ADCRR’s Violence Reduction Workgroup, focused on reducing violence and improving prison safety with an emphasis on finding and implementing feasible and sustainable solutions.
As an advocate for education and research, she has been published in the Arizona State Law Journal in the areas of comprehensive police data collection and the impacts of marijuana legalization on public safety.
Prior to her role at ADCRR she served as a trial attorney, receiving the Ross P. Lee Award in 2020 for her dedication to the provision of high-quality representation. She also worked as the Director of a criminal justice reform center at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, spearheading policy initiatives while managing a multi-million dollar budget.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing and Management from California Lutheran University and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law.