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Allister Adel: [50] First female to serve as the County Attorney of Maricopa County, Arizona (2019) Charlotte Wells: [51] First female judge in Mohave County, Arizona (2002) Carolyn Holliday: [52] [53] First female elected to the Superior Court of Navajo County, Arizona, (1996) and serve as its Presiding Judge (1999)
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.
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 ...
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.
District Judge Dominic W. Lanza: Phoenix: 1976 2018–present — — Trump: 45 District Judge Susan Brnovich: Phoenix: 1968 2018–present — — Trump: 46 District Judge Michael T. Liburdi: Phoenix: 1977 2019–present — — Trump: 47 District Judge Scott H. Rash: Tucson: 1963 2020–present — — Trump: 48 District Judge John C ...
Driggs has been a small business owner since 1997. He was a prosecutor for Maricopa County Attorney's Office from 1995 to 1997. He was also a clerk at a law firm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and later was an Attorney at Driggs Law Group. [4] In February 2017, Driggs was appointed as a judge to the Maricopa County Superior Court. [6]
Maricopa County voters will decide to keep or get rid of 47 Maricopa County Superior Court judges. To aid voters, the Arizona Commission on Judicial Performance Review evaluates judges and justices.