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Who They Are: Pima County

Gabriella Cázares-Kelly (D)

Recorder · Countywide elected officers, Pima County

How
Elected
Party
Democrat
Since
January 2021
Term ends
Dec. 31, 2028
Next election
Nov. 7, 2028
Pay
$96,600 a year, by statute since Jan. 1, 2025: A.R.S. § 11-419(A).

What the office does

The recorder has custody of and keeps all records, maps and papers deposited in the recorder's office, and records every instrument the law requires or allows to be recorded, in the order received: deeds, maps and the rest of the county's land records, kept open to inspection.

Under the election code the recorder is also the county's voter-registration officer, supplying and distributing registration forms and appointing deputy registrars, and the officer an elector asks for an early ballot.

Source: A.R.S. § 11-461; A.R.S. §§ 16-131 and 16-542.

In our reporting

See the whole chart: Pima County.

Official portrait via the Pima County Recorder's Office (recorder.pima.gov)

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.