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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 ...
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
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 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 ...
1979 – President Jimmy Carter appoints Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Valdemar Aguirre Cordova as the first Mexican American federal judge in the U.S. District of Arizona. 1980 – Cecil B. Patterson, Jr. becomes the first black judge appointed to the Maricopa County Superior Court. In September 1995 he became the first black judge ...
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.
The Arizona justice courts are nonrecord courts of limited jurisdiction in each county, presided over by a justice of the peace who is elected for a four-year term, that have jurisdiction over civil lawsuits where the amount in dispute is $10,000 or less, landlord and tenant controversies, small claims cases and the full range of civil and ...