Arizona State Executive Department

The Arizona State Executive Department is the executive branch of the Arizona State Government. The executive branch is headed by the Governor of Arizona, and is composed of the Office of Governor and the various executive Departments and Agencies of the State.

Arizona State Executive Council
The senior-most body of the Executive Department is the Arizona State Executive Council, which is composed of the Governor –who heads the Executive– and the principle Officer in each of the various executive Departments and Agencies of the State. The Executive Council is not a cabinet in the parliamentary sense of the term. Rather it is more of a council of state that advises the Governor on the affairs of the State, whereby all final decisions are made by the Governor and not by the whole council as would be the case in a cabinet system of executive government: The Governor is not a primus inter pares, but the Chief Executive of the State.