This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Arizona . It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Sarah Herring Sorin: First female lawyer in Arizona (1892)
Janet Napolitano: First female Attorney General for Arizona (1999)
Diane Humetewa: First Native American (Hopi ) female Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (2014)
Attorney General of Arizona
Assistant Attorney General
Assistant United States Attorney
County Attorney
First female: Rose Sosnowsky Silver in 1969[31] [32]
First Latino American female: Patricia A. Orozco (1989) in 1999[18] [19]
Assistant County Attorney
First female: Loretta Savage Whitney in 1943[10]
State Bar of Arizona
First female (president): Roxana C. Bacon in 1991[36]
First openly lesbian female (president): Amelia Craig Cramer in 2012[37]
First Asian American (female) (president): Lisa Loo (1988) in 2016[38] [39]
First Latino American female (president): Jessica Sanchez in 2022[40]
Donna Grimsley:[41] First female to serve on the Apache County Superior Court, Arizona (2003)
Ann Littrell:[42] First female to serve on the Cochise County Superior Court in Arizona
Helen Colton:[43] First female judge in Coconino County, Arizona (1919)
Ann Kirkpatrick (1979):[44] First female Deputy County Attorney for Coconino County, Arizona
Daisy Flores:[45] First female County Attorney in Gila County, Arizona
Monica Lynn Stauffer:[46] First female to serve on the Superior Court of Greenlee County, Arizona (1998)
Jessica Quickle:[47] First female judge in La Paz County, Arizona (2018)
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
Rosa Mroz:[16] [17] First Asian American female to serve on the Maricopa County Superior Court (2004)
Barbara Rodriguez Mundell:[48] First Hispanic female to serve as the Presiding Judge of Maricopa County, Arizona (2005)
Roxanne Song Ong:[7] [8] First Asian female to serve as the Presiding Judge of the Phoenix Municipal Court (Maricopa County, Arizona; 2005)
Allister Adel :[49] First female to serve as the County Attorney of Maricopa County, Arizona (2019)
Charlotte Wells:[50] First female judge in Mohave County, Arizona (2002)
Carolyn Holliday:[51] [52] First female elected to the Superior Court of Navajo County, Arizona , (1996) and serve as its Presiding Judge (1999)
Mary Anne Richey (née Reimann):[2] [30] First female to serve as the Deputy County Attorney in Pima County, Arizona (1952)
Alice Truman:[53] First female Justice of the Peace and judge in Pima County, Arizona (1962)
Rose Sosnowsky Silver:[31] [32] First female appointed as the Pima County Attorney (1969)
Barbara LaWall (1976):[54] First female elected as the Pima County Attorney (1996)
Lina Rodriguez (1977):[4] [55] First Hispanic American to serve on the Pima County Superior Court, Arizona (1984)
Laine Sklar:[56] First female magistrate in Marana, Arizona (c. 2006) [Pima County, Arizona ]
Margarita Bernal (c. 1979):[57] First Latino American female to serve as a municipal court judge in Tucson, Arizona [Pima County, Arizona]
Anna Montoya-Paez:[58] First female elected to the Santa Cruz County Superior Court, Arizona
Sheila Polk (1982):[54] First female to serve as the Yavapai County Attorney (2004)
Nellie T. Bush and Emeline Ferguson:[9] First females elected as Justices of the Peace in Yuma County, Arizona (1914)
Patricia A. Orozco (1989):[18] [19] First Latino American female appointed as the County Attorney for Yuma County, Arizona (1999)
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Upon becoming a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona
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