Katie Hobbs appointed Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday, making the state appellate judge from rural Yuma County the first Latina and first Black person chosen for the ...

Later that day, she told her employer she was resigning to pursue a law degree. Cruz earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Arizona in 1998 and her law degree from the ...

Katie Hobbs appointed Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday, making the state appellate judge from Yuma County the first Latina and first Black person chosen for the state’s ...

And there’s something else. She pointed out the Arizona Constitution requires both the commission that screens applicants and the governor herself to “consider the diversity of the state’s population.

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 person chosen for the ...

PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs on Monday placed the first Hispanic woman and the first Black ever on the Arizona Supreme Court. The governor chose Maria Elena Cruz, now a judge on the Court of ...

"For the White Mountain Apache, this is fundamentally a sovereignty issue," Richard Fields, managing director partner of the law firm Fields Han Cunniff, told The Arizona Republic. "Their children ...