Phoenix- Democratic government, Katie Hobbus, appointed Maria Elena Cruise as the Supreme Court of Arizona on Wednesday, making Yuma County’s State County County’s first Latina and the first black appeal.
Hobbs’s CRUZ has shown the first appointment of the Supreme Court by the Democratic Governor since 2005. It also expands the racial, geographical and political diversity of the seven courts dominated by the Republican Party.
Since the establishment of the Arizona Supreme Court in 1912, there has been no justice that has been identified as black. Only one -Supreme Court Deputy Judge John Lopez -It is Latin. Democratic Cruz is the second Hispanic heritage and becomes the first person in African.
Former Governor Doug Ducey and Jan Brewer were responsible for choosing the other six justice in Maricopa -gun, Arizona, including Phoenix.
October 31st Judge Robert Brutinel’s retirement Hobbes presented an unusual opportunity to satisfy her own vacancy with her own choice. In recent years, the judiciary has decided on some hot buttons issues. abortion and electionIt leads to political prejudice accusation.
Based on Arizona’s law, the appointment committee of the appealing court must provide the governor to select three or more names. On December 9, 16 committees, chairman of the Supreme Court Secretary Anne Timamar, interviewed eight applicants. Eventually, we sent a list of five names to Hobbus. Hobbs made a 60 -day decision.
Born in New York, a Cruz, a Puerto Rico father and Dominica’s mother, was 14 years old when she and her family moved to Yuma -gun, the southwestern corner of Arizona, where she met California and Mexico.
She was a student at Arizonawestan College and was an elementary school teacher when she was involved in a car accident that changed her trajectory. After securing the statutory agent, she noticed that she would sit opposite the lawyer and discuss her litigation. Then she had a inspiration.
“There are people who are doing something really meaningful here, and those who are doing the work he are doing affecting people’s lives.” I told the interviewer onceIt reflects her thoughts at that moment.
She asked about his path to legal profession. She said she was a lawyer when she talked about the importance of the law school and the requirements to pass the bar exam.
Late that day, she told the employer that she had resigned to get a legal degree.
The cruise acquired a psychology bachelor’s degree at the University of Arizona in 1998, and in 2001, a doctoral law at the University of James E. Rogers Law. Private practice office and criminal lawyer.
She became a judge of the Coco Pindian tribe in 2005. Between 2009 and 2017, he served as a judge of the Yuma County Court.
Since 2017, CRUZ Arizona appeal court。 She was appointed by Ducy and was the first Democratic Party of the Republican governor to work in a state appeal court.
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