The Arizona Attorney General is the chief legal officer

Chief Legal Officer

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 of the state of Arizona

Arizona

Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

, in the United States

United States

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. It is an independent, constitutionally mandated office, elected by the people of the state to a four-year term.

The Attorney General’s Office is the largest law office in Arizona, with approximately 400 attorneys and 1,000 employees. The Attorney General's Office is divided into the following departments:

• Executive Office
• Solicitor General
• Administrative Operations
• Child and Family Protection
• Civil
• Civil Rights
• Criminal
• Public Advocacy

Arizona Territory

Arizona Territory

The Territory of Arizona was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863 until February 14, 1912, when it was admitted to the Union as the 48th state....

 

• Coles Bashford
  Coles Bashford
  Coles Bashford was an American lawyer and politician who became the fifth Governor of Wisconsin. His one term as governor ended in a bribery scandal that forced him to leave the state, but he was later instrumental in the government of the newly formed Arizona Territory.-Early life and...
  
   1864 - 1866
• Granville Henderson Oury
  Granville Henderson Oury
  Granville Henderson Oury was a nineteenth century American politician, lawyer, judge, soldier and miner.-Early life and career:...
  
   1869
• J. E. McCaffry ca. 1872
• Clark Churchill  1884 - 1887
• Briggs Goodrich 1887 - 1888
• John A. Rush 1888 - 1889
• Clark Churchill 1889 - 1892
• William Herring 1892 - 1893
• John C. Herndon 1893
• Francis J. Heney
  Francis J. Heney
  Francis Joseph Heney was an American lawyer who served as Attorney General of the Arizona Territory between 1893 and 1895.- Early years :...
  
   1893 - 1895
• Thomas D. Satterwhite 1895 - 1896
• J. F. Wilson 1896 - 1897
• C. M. Frazier 1898
• Charles F. Ainsworth 1898 - 1902
• Edmund W. Wells
  Edmund W. Wells
  Edmund William Wells was an American jurist, businessman, and politician. Known as "Arizona's first millionaire", he was considered the richest man in Arizona during his attempt to be elected Governor. He served as Attorney General for Arizona Territory before being appointed as a judge...
  
   1902 - 1904
• Joseph H. Kibbey 1904 - 1905
• E. S. Clark 1905 - 1910
• John B. Wright 1910 - 1912

State of Arizona

• George Purdy Bullard 1912 - 1915
• Wiley E. Jones 1915 - 1921
• W. J. Galbraith 1921 - 1923
• John W. Murphy 1923 - 1928
• K. Berry Peterson 1928 - 1933
• Arthur T. La Prade 1933 - 1935
• John L. Sullivan 1935 - 1937
• Joe Conway 1937 - 1944
• John L. Sullivan 1944 - 1948
• Evo Anton DeConcini
  Evo Anton DeConcini
  Evo Anton DeConcini was Attorney General of Arizona, and a Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court from 1949 to 1953.Born in Iron Mountain, Michigan, DeConcini and his family soon moved to Wisconsin. He began studies at the University of Wisconsin in 1920, but his father's death in an automobile...
  
   1948 - 1949, father of Dennis DeConcini
  Dennis DeConcini
  Dennis Webster DeConcini is a former Democratic U.S. Senator from Arizona. Son of former Arizona Supreme Court Judge Evo Anton DeConcini, he represented Arizona in the United States Senate from 1977 until 1995....
  
  
• Fred O. Wilson 1949 - 1953
• Ross F. Jones 1953 - 1955
• Robert Morrison 1955 - 1960
• Wade Church 1960 - 1961
• Robert Pickrell 1961 - 1965
• Darrell F. Smith 1965 - 1968
• Gary K. Nelson 1969 - 1974
• N. Warner Lee 1974 - 1975
• Bruce Babbitt
  Bruce Babbitt
  Bruce Edward Babbitt , a Democrat, served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as the 16th governor of Arizona, from 1978 to 1987.-Biography:...
  
   1975 - 1978, afterwards Governor and then US Secretary of the Interior
• John A. (“Jack”) LaSota, Jr.
  John A. (“Jack”) LaSota, Jr.
  John A. LaSota is a former Arizona Attorney General . LaSota also served as Bruce Babbitt's Chief of Staff when the former was governor of Arizona. He is now a lobbyist for the firm -Legal and Lobbying Career :...
  
   1978 - 1979
• Bob Corbin 1979 - 1991
• Grant Woods
  Grant Woods
  Grant Woods served as attorney general of Arizona from 1991 until 1999. A Republican, he was first elected in 1990 and was reelected in 1994. He was selected by his fellow Attorneys General as the nation’s top Attorney General in 1995. He chaired the Civil Rights and Supreme Court committees for...
  
   1991 - 1999
• Janet Napolitano
  Janet Napolitano
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   1999 - 2002, afterwards Governor and then US Secretary of Homeland Security
  United States Secretary of Homeland Security
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• Terry Goddard
  Terry Goddard
  Samuel Pearson "Terry" Goddard III was the Attorney General of Arizona, from 2003 to 2011, who also served as Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona from 1984 to 1990....
  
   2002 - 2011
• Tom Horne
  Tom Horne
  Thomas Charles "Tom" Horne is the current Arizona Attorney General. He served as the Arizona Department of Education Superintendent of Public Instruction from 2003 to 2011.-Early Life and Education:...
  
  2011 - present

Source

• http://azmemory.lib.az.us/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/agopinions&CISOSORT=descri%7Cf&CISOSTART=1,1 Arizona Attorney General Opinions