This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Arizona. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.

Firsts in Arizona's history

Lawyers

First female: Sarah Herring Sorin (1892) First Hispanic American female: Mary Stella Cota-Robles (1940) First African American female: Jean Williams (1949) First female to serve as the chief staff attorney for the Supreme Court of Arizona: Sarah D. Grant First female to start a practice on Arizona Indian Reservation and serve as general counsel to the Havasupai: Martha Blue (1967) First Asian American female: Roxanne Song Ong (1979)

List of first women lawyers and judges in Arizona

State judges

First female justices of the peace: Nellie T. Bush and Emeline Ferguson in 1914

First female to unsuccessfully run for court superior court judge: Gertrude Converse in 1948 First female (Arizona Superior Court): Lorna E. Lockwood (1925) in 1950 First Latino American female (reputed): Anita Lewis Chávez (1947) First female (Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court): Lorna E. Lockwood (1925) in 1970 First female (Arizona Court of Appeals): Mary M. Schroeder in 1975 First African American female: Jean Williams (1949) in 1977 First Asian American female: Roxanne Song Ong (1979) circa 1986 First African American female (justice of the peace): Pamela Gutierrez in 1994 First Asian American female (Arizona Superior Court): Rosa Mroz in 2004 First Latino American female (Arizona Court of Appeals): Patricia A. Orozco (1989) in 2004 First openly lesbian female: Tracey Nadzieja in 2018 First Navajo female (chief justice of tribal high court): Claudine Bates-Arthur (1970) First Muslim female (justice of the peace pro tempore): Laila Ikram (2022)

List of first women lawyers and judges in Arizona

Federal judges

First Latino American female (U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona): Mary H. Murguia (1985) in 2000 First Native American (Hopi) female (U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona): Diane Humetewa (1993) in 2014

List of first women lawyers and judges in Arizona

Attorney General of Arizona

First female: Janet Napolitano (1983) from 1999-2003

Assistant Attorney General

First female: Lorna E. Lockwood (1925) in 1948

United States Attorney

First female: Mary Anne Richey (née Reimann) in 1960

First Native American (Hopi) female: Diane Humetewa (1993) in 2007

Assistant United States Attorney

First female: Mary Anne Richey (née Reimann) around 1954

County Attorney

First female: Rose Sosnowsky Silver in 1969

First Latino American female: Patricia A. Orozco (1989) in 1999

Assistant County Attorney

First female: Loretta Savage Whitney in 1943

Political Office

First openly bisexual female (elected to the U.S. Congress): Kyrsten Sinema (2005) in 2013