Arizona Attorney General
The Arizona Attorney General is one of the constitutional offices of the State of Arizona . He is the Chief Justice Officer for the state of Arizona. He is elected by the electorate for four years. The Attorney General's office has about 400 salaried attorneys and a further 1,000 employees.
Organization and tasks
The Arizona Attorney General represents and advises most government agencies, enforces consumer protection and civil rights laws, prosecutes complex financial criminals, and handles illicit drug cases. In addition, all appeals resulting from crime convictions will be turned over to this office.
The Department of Child and Family Protection provides legal services to the Department of Economic Security , including the Department of Child Support Services .
The Attorney General's office handles all lawsuits on behalf of the state and prepares formal legal opinions required by state, legislature, or county attorneys on questions of the law.
The Attorney General's Office is responsible for Arizona's Consumer Fraud Act , white-collar crime, organized crime, public corruption, environmental laws, civil rights laws, and crimes committed in more than one county. In addition, this office will pursue cases that are normally handled by county attorneys when they are in conflict.
It is divided into the following departments:
- Criminal Division
- State Government Division
- Child and Family Protection Division
- Civil Litigation Division
- Solicitor General's Office
- Communications Division
- Operations
Requirements for the Arizona Attorney General
The constitution states that all employees, including the attorney general, must be 25 years old, have been a citizen of the United States for at least 10 years , and have been resident in Arizona for at least five years.
It is also required that the Attorney General be a licensed and practicing attorney in the United States Supreme Court for at least five years. However, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled in the 1977 appointment process of Jack LaSota that this law was unconstitutional, so LaSota was appointed Attorney General without his license being renewed and thus not a practicing attorney.
List of Arizona Attorney General
Arizona Territory
| Term of office | Attorney General | image | Political party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1864-1866 | Coles Bashford |
|
republican |
| 1866-1867 | John A. Rush | democrat | |
| 1869-1871 | Granville Henderson Oury |
|
democrat |
| 1871-1883 | James E. McCaffrey | ||
| 1883-1887 | Clark Churchill | republican | |
| 1887-1888 | Briggs Goodrich | ||
| 1888-1889 | John A. Rush | democrat | |
| 1889-1891 | Clark Churchill | republican | |
| 1891-1893 | William Herring | ||
| 1893-1895 | Francis J. Heney |
|
|
| 1895-1896 | Thomas D. Satterwhite | democrat | |
| 1896-1897 | John Frank Wilson | democrat | |
| 1897-1999 | CM Frazier | republican | |
| 1899-1902 | Charles F. Ainsworth | republican | |
| 1902-1904 | Edmund W. Wells |
|
republican |
| 1904-1905 | Joseph Henry Kibbey |
|
republican |
| 1905-1909 | IT Clark | republican | |
| 1909-1912 | John B. Wright |
State of Arizona
| Term of office | Attorney General | image | Political party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1912-1915 | George Purdy Bullard | democrat | |
| 1815-1921 | Wiley E. Jones | democrat | |
| 1921-1923 | WJ Galbraith | republican | |
| 1923-1929 | John W. Murphy | democrat | |
| 1929-1933 | K. Berry Peterson | democrat | |
| 1933-1935 | Arthur T. LaPrade | democrat | |
| 1935-1937 | John L. Sullivan | democrat | |
| 1937-1944 | Joe Conway | democrat | |
| 1944-1948 | John L. Sullivan | democrat | |
| 1948-1949 | Evo Anton DeConcini | democrat | |
| 1949-1953 | Fred O. Wilson | democrat | |
| 1953-1955 | Ross F. Jones | republican | |
| 1955-1960 | Robert Morrison (politician) | democrat | |
| 1960-1961 | Wade Church | democrat | |
| 1961-1965 | Robert Pickrell | republican | |
| 1965-1968 | Darrell F. Smith | republican | |
| 1969-1974 | Gary K. Nelson | republican | |
| 1974-1975 | N. Warner Lee | republican | |
| 1975-1988 | Bruce Babbitt |
|
democrat |
| 1978-1979 | Jack LaSota | democrat | |
| 1979-1991 | Bob Corbin | republican | |
| 1991-1999 | Grant Woods |
|
republican |
| 1999-2003 | Janet Napolitano |
|
Democrat |
| 2003-2011 | Terry Goddard |
|
democrat |
| 2011-2015 | Tom Horne |
|
republican |
| since 2015 | Mark Brnovich |
|
republican |
Individual evidence
- ↑ About the Office of Attorney General , accessed January 1, 2017.
- ↑ Arizona Constitution, Article 5, Section 2
- ↑ State ex rel. Sawyer v. LaSota, 119 Ariz. 253 (1978)
