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Who They Are: Pima County

Jorge Soto

Treasurer · Countywide elected officers, Pima County

Appointed by the Board of Supervisors after Brian Johnson resigned. Whether the seat goes on the 2026 or 2028 ballot is being checked.

How
Appointed to fill a vacancy
Since
July 2026
Term ends
Dec. 31, 2028
Background
No party is shown: Soto was appointed and has not appeared on a party ballot.
Pay
$96,600 a year, by statute since Jan. 1, 2025: A.R.S. § 11-419(A).

What the office does

The treasurer is the county's banker. The office receives all money of the county and other money the law directs to be paid to the county, keeps it safely, keeps an account of every receipt and expenditure, and pays money out only by warrant issued by the Board of Supervisors, by authorized electronic transfer, or as the law otherwise provides, issuing a numbered receipt for every payment it takes in.

The treasurer is also, by statute, the county's tax collector.

Source: A.R.S. §§ 11-493 and 11-494; A.R.S. § 11-401.

In our reporting

See the whole chart: Pima County.

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.