Jan Brewer

Jan Brewer
Brewer in 2018
22nd Governor of Arizona
In office
January 21, 2009 – January 5, 2015
Preceded byJanet Napolitano
Succeeded byDoug Ducey
18th Secretary of State of Arizona
In office
January 6, 2003 – January 21, 2009
GovernorJanet Napolitano
Preceded byBetsey Bayless
Succeeded byKen Bennett
Member of the
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors
In office
January 3, 1997 – January 6, 2003
Preceded byEd King
Succeeded byMax Wilson
Member of the Arizona Senate
from the 19th district
In office
January 6, 1987 – January 3, 1997
Preceded byBilly Davis
Succeeded byScott Bundgaard
Member of the Arizona House of Representatives
from the 19th district
In office
January 3, 1983 – January 6, 1987
Preceded byJane Dee Hull
Succeeded byDon Kenney
Personal details
Born
Janice Kay Drinkwine

(1944-09-26) September 26, 1944 (age 80)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouses
Ronald Warren
(m. 1963; div. 1967)
John Brewer
(m. 1970)
Children3
EducationGlendale Community College (Arizona)
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Janice Kay Brewer (née Drinkwine, formerly Warren; born September 26, 1944)[1] is an American politician and author who served as the 22nd governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Brewer is the fourth woman (and was the third consecutive woman) to be Governor of Arizona. Brewer assumed the governorship as part of the line of succession, as determined by the Arizona Constitution, when Governor Janet Napolitano resigned to become U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Brewer had been Secretary of State of Arizona from January 2003 to January 2009.

Born in California, Brewer attended Glendale Community College, from where she received a radiological technologist certificate. She has never earned a college degree. She was a state representative and state senator for Arizona from 1983 to 1996. She was chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors before running for Arizona secretary of state in 2002.

As governor, Brewer signed the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act. The act makes it a state misdemeanor crime for a noncitizen to be in Arizona without carrying registration documents required by federal law, authorizes state and local law enforcement of federal immigration laws and cracks down on those sheltering, hiring and transporting illegal immigrants. Brewer sought and was elected to a full term as governor of Arizona in 2010.

  1. ^ "Brewer, Jan". Current Biography Yearbook 2011. Ipswich, MA: H. W. Wilson. 2011. pp. 92–95. ISBN 9780824211219.