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Who They Are: Pima County

Andrés Cano (D)

District 5 · Board of Supervisors, Pima County

Appointed by the Board of Supervisors, 3-0, on April 15, 2025, to fill out Adelita Grijalva's term after she resigned to run for Congress. The seat is on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot; Cano was unopposed in the July 21 Democratic primary.

How
Appointed to fill a vacancy
Party
Democrat
Since
April 2025
Next election
Nov. 3, 2026
Pay
$96,600 a year, by statute since Jan. 1, 2025: A.R.S. § 11-419(A), counties of 500,000 or more.

What the office does

The Board of Supervisors is the county's governing body and its legislative authority: the county's powers can be exercised only by the board or by officers acting under its authority. State law lets the board supervise the conduct of the county officers who assess, collect and spend public money, levy the annual county property tax, lay out and maintain county roads, care for the county's sick, establish precincts and canvass election returns, fill vacancies in county offices, and adopt local police, sanitary and other regulations.

In a county of Pima's size the board has five members, each elected from a supervisorial district to a four-year term. The board appoints the county administrator and the clerk of the board.

Source: A.R.S. §§ 11-201, 11-211 and 11-251; Pima County Code § 2.04.010.

In our reporting

See the whole chart: Pima County.

Seat details: official page.

Official portrait via Pima County (pima.gov, District 5 page)

Who They Are was researched and written by Nicholas De Leon with Claude Fable 5.1 from the official pages, election canvasses, statutes and contracts linked on each chart; the reports naming each person are matched by code from What They Decided, and no model wrote any of it. Last updated 10:31 AM MST on October 5, 2026. Read more about how this is made.