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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)
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 Maricopa County and any Arizona county with a population higher than 250,000, judicial retention elections decide which judges will keep their jobs. A majority of "yes" votes keeps a judge in ...
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.
Three-judge panels were added to Division 1 in 1969, 1974, 1982, and 1989. Another judge was added in 1995 "so that the Chief Judge could devote time to the court's increasing administrative workload." [2] Division 2 added three judges in 1985. [2] Six more judges were added in 2022, three for each division.
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.
Maricopa County Superior Court (Commissioner: 1990–1993; Judge: 1993–2009) Arizona: retired: Silvia R. Arellano [30] Maricopa County Superior Court (appt. 1990) Arizona: retired: Maria Arias [31] Queens County Family Court (2010– ) New York: active: Raúl M. Arias-Marxuach [32] United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico ...