By Caitlin Sievers | AZ Mirror
Justice Robert Brutinel will retire from the Arizona Supreme Court at the end of October, he announced Tuesday.
His retirement means that Gov. Katie Hobbs will get to appoint his replacement, the first Democrat to appoint a justice to the high court in more than 15 years.
Brutinel, who was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court by then-Gov. Jan Brewer in 2010, worked in law for 42 years, 28 of them as a judge, he wrote in his resignation letter to Hobbs.
Brutinel was appointed as Yavapai County Superior Court judge in 1996 by Republican then-Gov. Fife Symington.