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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)
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.
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.
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 ...
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)
Courts of Arizona include: . State courts of Arizona. Arizona Supreme Court [1]. Arizona Court of Appeals (2 divisions) [2]. Superior Court of Arizona (15 counties) [2]. Justices of the Peace (county courts) [3] and Arizona Municipal Courts, city trial courts and courts of limited jurisdiction
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.
To be chief, a judge must have been in active service on the court for at least one year, be under the age of 65, and have not previously served as chief judge. A vacancy is filled by the judge highest in seniority among the group of qualified judges. The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first.