Arizona State Executive Cabinet

The State Council 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 State Council is the functional equivalent of a presidential Cabinet; and is responsible for executing the Constitution and laws of Arizona and the Constitution and 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.

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 Head of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (Superintendent of AHCCCS); the Head of the Arizona Radiation Regulatory Agency (Superintendent of ARRA); and the Heads of the Corporation Commission (Commissioners).

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

However, the style for the Governor is in the form, “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”.

Members and role
The Arizona State Council is composed of the Governor and the Heads of the twenty-nine (29) principal State agencies, and exercises the regulatory and executive Powers of the State under the direction, supervision, and control of the Governor. The Governor is Head of the State Council and, and such, presides over all meetings of the State Council; appoints (with Senate confirmation) and dismisses (on his own prerogative) Heads of the principal State agencies; and directs, supervises, and controls the thirty principal State agencies vis-á-vis their Heads sitting in the State Council.

The Arizona State Council. […]