Tom Horne

Tom Horne
Horne at an event in Phoenix in 2023
19th and 23rd Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction
Assumed office
January 2, 2023
GovernorKatie Hobbs
Preceded byKathy Hoffman
In office
January 1, 2003 – January 1, 2011
GovernorJanet Napolitano
Jan Brewer
Preceded byJaime Molera
Succeeded byJohn Huppenthal
25th Attorney General of Arizona
In office
January 3, 2011 – January 5, 2015
GovernorJan Brewer
Preceded byTerry Goddard
Succeeded byMark Brnovich
Member of the Arizona House of Representatives
from the 24th district
In office
January 1997 – January 2001
Serving with Barbara Leff
Preceded byErnest Baird
Sue Grace
Succeeded byStephen Tully
Personal details
Born
Thomas Charles Horne

(1945-03-28) March 28, 1945 (age 79)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political partyRepublican
SpouseMartha (died 2019)
Children5 (1 deceased)
EducationHarvard University (BA, JD)

Thomas Charles Horne (born March 28, 1945)[1] is a Canadian-American politician, attorney, businessman, and activist who has served as the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction since 2023 and previously from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was Attorney General of Arizona from 2011 to 2015. Horne ran for reelection as Attorney General but lost to Mark Brnovich in the 2014 Republican primary.

He returned to the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2023, having been elected to that office in the 2022 election.

  1. ^ "Candidate Q & A: Tom Horne (REP) – Attorney General Candidate". The Arizona Republic. 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2011.