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Anita Lewis Chávez (1947): [4] [12] [13] Reputed to be the first Latino American female lawyer in Maricopa County, Arizona; Gloria Ybarra: [4] First Hispanic female to serve on the Maricopa County Superior Court, Arizona (1985) Sarah D. Grant: [5] First female to serve as the Presiding Criminal Judge in the Maricopa County Superior Court
Cecil B. Patterson Jr. (1971): [4] [18] First African American male to serve on the Maricopa County Superior Court; Kevin Kane: [27] First openly LGBT male to serve on the Phoenix Municipal Court (2006) Raúl Héctor Castro (1949): [11] [12] [13] First Mexican American male to serve on the Superior Court of Pima County, Arizona (1959)
Division 1 consists of Maricopa, Yuma, La Paz, Mohave, Coconino, Yavapai, Navajo and Apache counties. Division 2 consists of Pima, Pinal, Cochise, Santa Cruz, Greenlee, Graham and Gila counties. [4] At least ten judges of Division 1 must be residents of Maricopa county and five residents of the remaining counties. Four may be from any county.
Maricopa County voters will see judges on their ballot from the state Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and the Maricopa County Superior Court.
In 2003, she became a commissioner on the Maricopa County Superior Court, where she presided over numerous criminal jury trials over the next five years. Brnovich was appointed by Governor of Arizona Janet Napolitano as a trial court judge in January 2009 and was retained by voters in both 2012 and 2016.
Out of the 26 elected justices of the peace, nine are women, three are Black, five are Hispanic, one is Native American and two identify as LGBTQ.
For example, Maricopa County refers to its branch as "The Judicial Branch of Arizona in Maricopa County." Since 2015, the Maricopa County Superior Court has included a specialized business court docket, known as the Commercial Court. The "Commercial Court is a specialty calendar within the Civil Department to resolve controversies that arise in ...
After same-day ballots, Maricopa County voters decided to retain three Arizona Supreme Court justices, five Court of Appeals judges and 44 Maricopa County judges.