Arizona State Courts Building

The Arizona State Courts Building symbolizes how far the judicial system has come in Arizona since the days of the first territorial courts.  In May of 1864, Justice William T. Howell resigned his territorial appointment.  Howell explained to Governor John Goodwin that he could no longer reside in a district where two out of three people were barefoot and where court was conducted in an adobe shack with an earthen floor and a dry goods box as a rostrum.

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