Mary Stella Rosenberg Cota-Robles (1915–1989) was Arizona’s first Hispanic American female lawyer.[1][2]
She was born in Tubac, Arizona in 1915.[3][4] In 1940, Cota-Robles became the first Hispanic female admitted to practice law in Arizona.[1] Cota-Robles worked as a Deputy County Attorney during the 1950s and a defense attorney during the 1960s.[5][6] She was married to Mario Cota-Robles, Esq. and they eventually opened a law office in Tucson, Arizona.[7][8] She died in 1989 in Tucson, Arizona.
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edit- ^ a b Arizona, State Bar of. "Diversity". State Bar of Arizona. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
- ^ Ryan, Michael D. (November 2000). "Arizona Trailblazers: Honoring 100 Women and Minority Lawyers" (PDF). Arizona Attorney.
- ^ "FROM THE EDITOR: Tubac ready to make history". Green Valley News. 4 April 2015. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
- ^ Martin, Patricia Preciado (2016-05-26). Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 9780816534364.
- ^ "New Trial Asked, Man Charges Police Frame". Tucson Daily Citizen. June 25, 1968. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
- ^ "JP Came Here To Die, But Gained Love, Life". Tucson Daily Citizen. June 5, 1964. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
- ^ The California Legal Directory. Legal Directories Publishing Company. 1975.
- ^ Annual report to the Ford Foundation. MALDEF. 1968.