Firsts in Arizona's history
Lawyers
- First female: Sarah Herring Sorin (1892)[1]
- First Hispanic American female: Mary Stella Cota-Robles (1940)[2]
- First African American female: Jean Williams (1949)[3][4]
- First female to serve as the chief staff attorney for the Supreme Court of Arizona: Sarah D. Grant[5]
- First female to start a practice on Arizona Indian Reservation and serve as general counsel to the Havasupai: Martha Blue (1967)[6]
- First Asian American female: Roxanne Song Ong (1979)[7][8]
State judges
- First female justices of the peace: Nellie T. Bush and Emeline Ferguson in 1914[9]
- First female to unsuccessfully run for court superior court judge: Gertrude Converse in 1948[10]
- First female (Arizona Superior Court): Lorna E. Lockwood (1925) in 1950[11]
- First Latino American female (reputed): Anita Lewis Chávez (1947)[4][12][13]
- First female (Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court): Lorna E. Lockwood (1925) in 1970[11]
- First female (Arizona Court of Appeals): Mary M. Schroeder in 1975[14]
- First African American female: Jean Williams (1949) in 1977[3][4]
- First Asian American female: Roxanne Song Ong (1979) circa 1986[7][8]
- First African American female (justice of the peace): Pamela Gutierrez in 1994[15]
- First Asian American female (Arizona Superior Court): Rosa Mroz in 2004[16][17]
- First Latino American female (Arizona Court of Appeals): Patricia A. Orozco (1989) in 2004[18][19]
- First openly lesbian female: Tracey Nadzieja in 2018[20]
- First Navajo female (chief justice of tribal high court): Claudine Bates-Arthur (1970)[21]
- First Muslim female (justice of the peace pro tempore): Laila Ikram (2022)[22]
Federal judges
- First Latino American female (U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona): Mary H. Murguia (1985) in 2000[23]
- First Native American (Hopi) female (U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona): Diane Humetewa (1993) in 2014[24][25][26][27]
Attorney General of Arizona
- First female: Janet Napolitano (1983) from 1999-2003[28]
Assistant Attorney General
- First female: Lorna E. Lockwood (1925) in 1948[11][29]
United States Attorney
- First female: Mary Anne Richey (née Reimann) in 1960[2][30]
- First Native American (Hopi) female: Diane Humetewa (1993) in 2007[24][25][26][27]
Assistant United States Attorney
- First female: Mary Anne Richey (née Reimann) around 1954[30]
County Attorney
- First female: Rose Sosnowsky Silver in 1969[31][32]
- First Latino American female: Patricia A. Orozco (1989) in 1999[18][19]
Assistant County Attorney
- First female: Loretta Savage Whitney in 1943[10]
Political Office
- First openly bisexual female (elected to the U.S. Congress): Kyrsten Sinema (2005) in 2013[33][34][35]