Justice Maria Elena Cruz officially took her seat on the Arizona Supreme Court during a special investiture ceremony held ...

Justice Cruz grew up in Yuma, attended Kofa and Yuma high schools and Arizona Western College and later began her legal ...

Maria Elena Cruz, the sixth woman ever appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court, describes her time in Yuma as pivotal in shaping her personal and professional life.

In a recent move by Governor Katie Hobbs, Arizona's judiciary has ... by Judge Jennifer Campbell's retirement, and Justice Maria Elena Cruz's ascension to the Arizona Supreme Court.

PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday vetoed a Republican-backed bill intended to support the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown by requiring local and state officials ...

Maria Elena Cruz, newly appointed Arizona Supreme Court Justice, joins "Horizonte." Governor Katie Hobbs named Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona State Supreme Court. She is the first Hispanic and ...

Katie Hobbs' chief legal advisor ... including Arizona Supreme Court Justice Maria Elena Cruz earlier this year. Cruz is Arizona's first Black and Latina justice. Before she joined Hobbs' payroll ...

Gov. Katie Hobbs on Monday stepped into the meat grinder that will be this year’s Arizona Legislature, and you could almost hear the gears revving up. No mention of how she plans to assist in ...

meeting, the candidates will now enter the interview stage to fill the two Division One vacancies left by the retirement of Judge Jennifer Campbell and the ascension of Judge Maria Elena Cruz to ...

Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court ... of three nominees for each vacancy will be submitted to Gov. Katie Hobbs, who holds the final responsibility of appointing the new judges.

PHOENIX — When Maria Elena Cruz was sworn in as Arizona's newest ... Cruz is the first Justice appointed by Governor Katie Hobbs, and she'll be the only Justice on the seven-person court that ...

Arizona Supreme Court Justice Maria Elena Cruz is a historic appointee made by Gov. Katie Hobbs. She is the first Latina and Black woman to be appointed and sworn in. She lives in Yuma with her ...