Photo: Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Maria Elena Cruz celebrates her appointment to the Supreme Court on Jan. 29, 2025.

Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has appointed Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court. The state appellate judge from rural Yuma County will become the first Latina and the first Black ...

He dips into his office and emerges wearing his black robe. He's ready to take the bench at 9 a.m. "Let's get it done," he says. After 35 years of public ...

Gov. Katie Hobbs on Monday placed the first Latina and the first Black ever on the Arizona Supreme Court. While in private ...

A federal judge says Arizona lawmakers and others lacked standing to sue the Biden administration over its creation of a new ...

Doug Burgum, incoming President Donald Trump’s pick for Interior Secretary, told Senators Thursday that the nation's federal ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced eight new Superior Court judge appointments in the greater Bay Area. The appointments, among 22 made statewide on Friday to fill vacant seats, include two in ...

Two local officials will serve on the Arizona Supreme Court’s newly established Steering Committee on Mental Health and the ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Coconino County announced that Supervisors Patrice Horstman as an elected official and Lena Fowler as a tribal representative, have been appointed by U.S. Secretary of the Interior ...

Coconino County Supervisors Patrice Horstman and Lena Fowler are set to join the newly-formed Monument Advisory Committee (MAC) for the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the ...

Following a flurry of judicial confirmations in the final weeks of the 118th Congress, President Joe Biden will end his tenure in the White House having appointed 228 judges to the federal courts.