Wayne C. Benesch

Wayne C. Benesch is a Partner of Benesch, Shadle & White, PLC. The primary focus of his practice is real estate law, business and corporate law, international business law with Mexico, estate planning and probate. As well as the representation of public and tax regulated agencies. He has more than 40 years experience and enjoys an exemplary reputation for his integrity and professionalism throughout the State of Arizona.

Mr. Benesch is a third generation Arizonan who graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1964 and a Juris Doctorate Degree in 1967. Following a four year term as a Judge Advocate with the United States Air Force, Mr. Benesch settled in Yuma in 1971 where he worked as Chief Deputy for the Yuma County Attorney. In 1973, he entered private practice, and in 1976, co-founded Byrne, Bradshaw, Ellsworth, Benesch & Thode, the predecessor of the present firm.

Mr. Benesch's service to the legal profession spans his entire career. He received the Meritorious Service Medal in 1971 for his exceptional military service in Korea. He has been active in the Yuma County Bar Association, serving as its President in 1974. He has served the State Bar of Arizona in many capacities over the past 40 years, first serving on the Ethics Committee, then on the Local Disciplinary Hearing Committee. He was appointed a State-wide Disciplinary Hearing Officer in 1989 and served in that capacity until 2000. More recently, he has served as a member of the Peer Review Committee, Appointments Committee, Unauthorized Practice of Law Task Force and Committee, and the Consumer Protection Committee.

Mr. Benesch has also served his community in a multitude of capacities. His service on civic and charitable boards is noteworthy and has continued throughout the past 40 years. He has been instrumental in the founding and growth of several civic leadership organizations which concurrently develop leaders and address significant community issues.

Trevor T. White

In 2010, I proudly began my career as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. Once admitted to legal practice in 2012, I served as a Marine Corps judge advocate at bases in California, Virginia, and finally at home in Yuma. At the close of my military tour in Yuma, my family and I made the decision to stay in the community we so love, and I joined the law firm in May of 2016. While I continue to serve as a Captain in the USMC Reserves assisting active duty military members and their families, I take pride in serving with and assisting the many Veterans that call Yuma home. My focus is on estate planning, wills, trusts, probate and probate litigation, business planning and incorporation, and agricultural law.

My ties to the Yuma community are long standing – my father grew up in Yuma, my beautiful wife was raised in Yuma, and the younger of my two rough-and-tumble sons was born here. I take great pride in calling Yuma home. My ties to Yuma and the surrounding areas have cultivated in me a targeted understanding of our unique community’s driving industries as well as the needs of its seasonal and year-round residents.

Elizabeth A. Norton

Growing up in Yuma, my ties to the community run deep. My father was raised here after my grandfather, Dunbar Norton retired for active duty serving at YPG. My father convinced my mother to move back to Yuma after they were married, and they have loved this community ever since. Upon graduating from Yuma Catholic in 2009, I traded in the hot summer for snowy winter in Iowa and then Nebraska attending undergraduate at Morningside College, graduating with a triple major in political science, history, and international affairs and a minor in economics in 2013. I then attended Law School at Creighton University, in Omaha, NE graduating cum laude with a Juris Doctor and a Masters in Government and Organizational Leadership. Despite the less than hospitable weather, I found a great, welcoming and dedicated community, much like the community I had left in Yuma.

Opportunities took me to far flung locations in Europe, and externing at the World Bank, in Washington, D.C., but it didn’t take long though for me to begin missing home. After completing a judicial clerkship with the Fourth Judicial District of Iowa, I made my way back home, with a quick detour in San Antonio, TX. Upon my return, I fortunate enough to be welcomed on to the team at Shadle & White in 2017.

With the continuing dedication to the local community that the firm stands for I seek to serve our clients in areas of non-profit and quasi-governmental entities, business, estate planning, real property, probate litigation, and other areas as the community may need. I look forward to continuing to serve the community I grew up in and the people that make Yuma home.