Arizona State Executive Cabinet

The Executive Cabinet of the State of Arizona is a body in the executive part (branch) of the Arizona State Government, composed of the Governor and the principle Officer in each of the executive Departments and Agencies of the Arizona State Government. The Executive Cabinet is responsible for executing the laws of Arizona and the laws of the United States throughout the State, and for carrying on the day-to-day government (governance) of the State.

Qualifications
Under Arizona law, no Person, having been convicted under State law for treason, felony, or domestic violence, is eligible to any Office of Profit or Trust in or under the State of Arizona or any place subject to its jurisdiction. This includes all Offices in or under the State of Arizona of an elected or appointive nature, at all levels of Government, from municipal, to county, to State, as well as school boards and other special-government entities. This qualification also equally extends and applies to offices at the Federal-level with the Office of Governor-General as well as to the offices of Senator and Representative, respectively, in Congress, and all Officers included in the Gubernatorial-General order of succession.

Titles and styles
The Head of each Department is the Secretary, officially the “Secretary of the Department of (portfolio)”: Howevever, the exceptions to this rule are the Head of the Department of the Attorney-General (the Attorney-General of the State); the Heads of the Department of Supernatural Affairs (Commissioner of the Department of Supernatual Affairs), and of the Department of First Nation Affairs (Commissioner of the Department of First Nation Affairs); the Head of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (Commissioner of AHCCCS); the Head of the Arizona Radiation Regulatory Agency (Commissioner of ARRA); and the Heads of the Corporation Commission (Commissioners).

The style for the Secretaries and Commissioners is, “Mister/Madam Secretary/Commissioner”; while the honorific for both is in the form, “The Honorable [name], Secretary/Commissioner of [agency]”.

However, the style for the Governor is in the form, “Mister/Madam Governor”; while the honorific are in the forms, “The Honorable [name], Governor of the State of Arizona”, and, “His/Her Excellency, the Governor of the State of Arizona”.