Right-wing Pinal County Attorney hit with sex discrimination claims

Since claiming office in 2024, Republican Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller has garnered a few headlines. 

He’s signed his office up to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a time when ICE’s budget is booming and its popularity is in the toilet. He nearly tore a muscle raising his hand for the chance to prosecute Democratic state Sen. Analise Ortiz for exercising her First Amendment rights, which earned Miller a public slapdown from Attorney General Kris Mayes. 

More recently, Miller drove an hour-and-a-half from his office in Florence to appear in person on KTAR in Phoenix, where he went to bat for the ICE officer who shot down Renee Good in Minneapolis. 

Such episodes have probably only burnished Miller’s reputation with the MAGA faithful that helped put him in office, but now comes a brewing scandal that could mar his public rep and put him in Dutch with the county’s leadership. According to a recent notice of claim filed with Miller’s office on Dec. 31 — first reported by Phoenix New Times — Miller seems to have quite the problem with women who speak their minds.

The notice of claim, which is a precursor to a lawsuit, was filed by Beth Goulden, a well-known probation reform advocate and the chair of the Arizona Sex Offender Management Board. In it, she claims that Miller and his chief of staff, Jeremiah Brosowske, fostered “a workplace of sex discrimination” that included sexist comments, making a female employee work without pay, retaliation for whistleblowing and forcing staffers to resign rather than be fired. (Though Goulden is still listed as the media contact on the Pinal County Attorney website.)

Those are just some of the allegations in the notice, which demands nearly $554,000 in back pay and damages. (Other allegations include Miller’s alleged comments regarding former Pinal County Sheriff and current congressional candidate Mark Lamb and his bedroom habits. More on that later.) According to the claim, which New Times obtained via a public records request, Miller pulled a pitch-and-switch on Goulden, promising her a salary of “over six figures” to be his legislative liaison, only to renege on the offer after she started working at his office.

Instead, Goulden was eventually appointed to be the office’s “community liaison,” at a salary of $67,000, about half of what she’d been promised. Despite that, Goulden says she was immediately put to work drafting proposed legislation that would have altered the power of the boards of supervisors for Arizona counties — which, it should be noted, hold the purse strings for county attorneys. Apparently, the proposed law was never introduced as a bill.

Despite working overtime on the project, Goulden says Miller stiffed her on the  first six weeks of her 2025 pay, which she says he still owes her.

Goulden declined to comment on the lawsuit when contacted by New Times.

Goulden’s notice also claims that Miller forced her to resign on Oct. 31 in retaliation for complaints about Brosowske, her supervisor; sexism in the office; and other concerns, such as Brosowske’s dubious past in California and his orders “to communicate on the Signal app” to circumvent Arizona’s public records laws.

Goulden says she was forced to publicly leave the office, escorted out by “an armed investigator.” She also name-checks other women she said were mistreated by the Pinal County Attorney’s Office, including Miller’s former chief deputy, Gina Godbehere, who ran unsuccessfully in the 2024 Republican primary for Maricopa County Attorney. Godbehere was appointed chief deputy in January 2025 and served till Oct. 24. Godbehere has given no reason for her sudden departure, but she put a happy face on the transition on LinkedIn, thanking Miller and his staff “for the privilege of serving beside you” and wishing them success in the future.

Godbehere declined to comment to New Times on Goulden’s allegations.

A spokesman for Pinal County told New Times that it would not comment on “pending litigation.” However, Brosowske responded with an email, calling Goulden’s claims “baseless and inaccurate” and writing that Miller’s office would have no further comment.

Ironically, just days before her alleged forced resignation, Miller had Goulden draft a press release touting her election to be chair of the Arizona Sex Offender Management Board, which Goulden helped create, “implying that his office will be leading this board to manage sex offenders across the State of Arizona.”

‘Dick pics’ and ‘you females’

In her claim, Goulden accused Brosowske and Miller of “sex discrimination” against her and other women in the office, stating that they created “an atmosphere of harassing, demeaning and pitting of the female employees” against each other. 

According to Goulden, Brosowske was a Class A shit disturber. If one woman emailed him something that could be seen as critical of another, Brosowske would creepily forward that criticism to the object of scorn. Brosowske also allegedly told Goulden to “keep Godbehere out of the Capitol for any legislative work,” saying that he wanted to “undermine Godbehere with her staff.”

Per the notice of claim, Brosowske boasted about “enjoying doing things to provoke” women in the office, such as gaslighting employees with false instructions in order to make them look “incompetent” to Miller. Brosowske would drop “false, negative comments” about Goulden and another woman to other female employees and made snide comments about “you females” having “high expectations” about Valentine’s Day, telling one colleague, “I don’t know how your husband handles you.”

Goulden says she and other staff members complained about Brosowske’s disruptive behavior to Miller in the spring of 2025, but Miller did not rein in his chief of staff. Instead, he allegedly chipped in with some sexual innuendo of his own about former Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, telling Goulden that the sheriff and the sheriff’s wife were “swingers” and that “Mark sends dick pics to women.”

Miller did not return a phone call from New Times requesting comment. But Lamb, who is currently the favorite in the Republican primary to replace Rep. Andy Biggs in Arizona’s 5th Congressional District, seemed unfazed by the alleged remark, which he regarded as bullcrap.

“I don’t know how my name ended up in it,” Lamb said of Goulden’s complaint, which he had not seen. “But you’re in politics, people say nasty stuff about you all the time. Unfortunately, most of it is untruthful, if not 95% of it.”

Lamb noted that he had supported Miller’s rival in the 2024 GOP primary, then-incumbent Pinal County Attorney Kent Volkmer, and speculated that Miller might hold “some hard feelings” as a result. But Lamb said he and Miller have had “some great conversations” since the latter’s election.

“It’s weird they’re over there talking about me,” Lamb said. “You’d think they’d focus on cases.” 

Lamb, who served two terms as Pinal County’s top lawman and lost the 2024 GOP primary for U.S. Senate to Kari Lake, seemed inured by past allegations of infidelity to his wife of 31 years, which he’s repeatedly denied.

“I’ve been with one woman in my life and that was my wife. That’s it,” he said, adding that he’ll probably be answering the same sort of questions regarding his personal life “when I’m 80 years old.”

Lamb claimed he and his wife have the same attitude toward people making such accusations.

“We just bury them in an avalanche of loving light,” he said.

A checkered past

One source familiar with the internal workings of the Pinal County Attorney’s Office, who spoke to New Times on the condition of anonymity, backed up Goulden’s claims about Brosowske. The ex-employee confirmed that Brosowske was perceived as a troublemaker by the staff and that he had advised underlings to use Signal, an encrypted messaging app that can auto-delete messages, for office communications — an apparent attempt to usurp Arizona’s public records law.

The source said Miller was advised of these problems, as well as allegations of sexism in the workplace. The source also believed women were treated differently from men by Miller and Brosowske.

“All of these issues were continuously raised over and over again to the point where it was causing friction with the entire team because nothing was being done with it,” the source said.

According to Goulden’s notice of claim, she and others also raised concerns to Miller about Brosowske’s past “unethical conduct.” In 2019, Brosowske was booted from the city council of Hesperia, California, because he didn’t meet the residency requirements for the district he represented.

Brosowske, then 27, was originally appointed to fill a vacancy on the council in 2018 and then won the seat outright later that same year. When it was determined that he didn’t live in the district when he was appointed, the council sent him packing in a 3-2 vote. Brosowske challenged the removal in court and lost.

While still a city councilmember, Brosowske reportedly scored a sweet gig as assistant general manager of the West Valley Water District in San Bernardino County, which contains Hesperia. According to the IE Voice, an independent newspaper in Riverside, California, Brosowske was hired for “an annual base salary of $189,592 and $62,500 in benefits” — despite one member of the district’s board of directors stating that he believed Brosowske was unqualified.

Brosowske was not long for his post. In 2020, the San Bernardino Sun reported that the water district had approved employment separation agreements with Brosowske and two others, in what the paper referred to as an apparent “housecleaning move.” According to the Sun, the district had “been mired for years in allegations of rampant cronyism and unethical hiring practices.”

Those allegations triggered an audit that same year by the California State Controller’s Office, which was completed in June 2020.  According to the non-profit newsroom LAist, the audit found that elected water board members misspent public monies on luxuries for themselves, including “indulging in ritzy hotel visits” and “taking board member retreats to a wine country golf resort far from the district they are supposed to serve.”

Brosowske’s name does not appear in the audit, but he managed to leave the besieged water district with some scrilla in his pocket. According to the Sun piece, the three employees cut loose in 2020 — Brosowske among them — “received at least six months of severance pay and payouts for unused vacation and leave time.”

Brosowske eventually landed on his feet in the Grand Canyon State. Pinal County employment records show that in April 2024, Brosowske was hired to be the county’s Water Resource Administrator at a rate of $82,345 per annum. Less than a year later, in January 2025, Brosowske was hired as Miller’s chief of staff at a yearly salary of $98,455. 

How, precisely, he became Miller’s aide-de-camp remains a tale yet to be told.

This story is part of the Arizona Watchdog Project, a yearlong reporting effort led by New Times and supported by the Trace Foundation, in partnership with Deep South Today.