He is an editorial board member of Arizona Attorney magazine, and serves as a State Representative on the Executive Council of the State Bar's Public Lawyers Section. Tsontakis has strong scholarly interests in Arizona and U.S. history, constitutional and election Law, and American foreign policy. His writings on those subjects have been published in the Journal of Arizona History, the Phoenix Law Review, Arizona Attorney, the Small Wars Journal, the Hill, the Arizona Republic, the Arizona Capitol Times, American Thinker and various websites. He has delivered CLE presentations on Arizona history and constitutional interpretation. Tsontakis lives in Scottsdale with his wife and son, and their dog, Molly.