PHOENIX – Gov. Katie Hobbs announced her first Arizona Supreme Court appointment on Wednesday. Hobbs selected Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Maria Elena Cruz to fill the vacancy created by the ...

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has appointed Maria Elena Cruz to the state Supreme Court. Cruz is an appeals court judge. She's the first Latina and first Black Arizonan to serve on the Arizona Supreme ...

(The Center Square) – Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Maria Elena Cruz is Gov. Katie Hobbs’ pick for the vacancy on the state Supreme Court. Cruz will be replacing former Justice Robert Brutinel, who ...

Maria Elena Cruz is joining the Arizona Supreme Court, one of the most exclusive clubs with lasting judicial consequences. That club is so exclusive, in fact, that the few available spots have ...

PHOENIX — Democratic Gov. 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 ...

PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs on Monday placed the first Hispanic woman who also is the first Black person to serve on the Arizona Supreme Court. Maria Elena Cruz, now a judge on the Court of ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily/AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs announced her pick for a new justice of the state’s Supreme Court on Wednesday morning. Gov. Hobbs nominated Judge Maria Elena Cruz as the ...

PHOENIX – Maria Elena Cruz, who will be sworn in as the newest Arizona Supreme Court justice on Monday, didn’t set out to be a judge when she started her law career. “I thought that the work ...

PHOENIX — Justices of the Arizona Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with the question of whether lawmakers who approved allowing abortions through the first 15 weeks of pregnancy in 2022 actually ...

Hobbs nominated Judge Maria Elena Cruz, a lifelong resident of Yuma, Arizona, to the state Supreme Court. Cruz will replace Justice Robert Brutinel, who retired last year. “Judge Maria Elena ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has appointed Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court. The state ...