Mary Stella Cota-Robles

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][5] 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.[6][7] She was married to Mario Cota-Robles, Esq. and they eventually opened a law office in Tucson, Arizona.[8][9] She died in 1989 in Tucson, Arizona.[4]

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References
  1. Arizona, State Bar of. "Diversity". State Bar of Arizona. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
  2. Ryan, Michael D. (November 2000). "Arizona Trailblazers: Honoring 100 Women and Minority Lawyers" (PDF). Arizona Attorney.
  3. "FROM THE EDITOR: Tubac ready to make history". Green Valley News. 4 April 2015. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
  4. "Mary Stella Cota-Robles (1915-1992)". Find a Grave.
  5. Martin, Patricia Preciado (2016-05-26). Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 9780816534364.
  6. "New Trial Asked, Man Charges Police Frame". Tucson Daily Citizen. June 25, 1968. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
  7. "JP Came Here To Die, But Gained Love, Life". Tucson Daily Citizen. June 5, 1964. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
  8. The California Legal Directory. Legal Directories Publishing Company. 1975.
  9. Annual report to the Ford Foundation. MALDEF. 1968.
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