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Did You Know: Arizona Leads The Pack With Women Governors

The "Fabulous Five"
Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records
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The "Fabulous Five" elected to top executive state positions on Inauguration Day in 1999.

Arizona has had 13 Democratic governors and nine Republicans. Most of our state leaders have been men. But Did You Know Arizona is the first state to have four women governors?

Nadine Arroyo Rodriguez was a reporter at KJZZ from 2008 to 2015.