Adrian Fontes

Adrian Fontes (born April 3, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the Secretary of State of Arizona since 2023. He previously served as the Maricopa County Recorder from 2017 to 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Fontes was first elected Secretary of State in 2022. Fontes was born and raised in Nogales, Arizona. His family has lived in southern Arizona for more than 300 years, even before Arizona became a state. He and Cisco Aguilar, neighboring secretary of state of Nevada, are distant cousins. Fontes served in the United States Marine Corps from 1992 to 1996, where he taught a marksmanship course. He earned his bachelor's degree in Communications from Arizona State University in 1998. When he returned, he attended the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver and graduated in 2000 with a Juris Doctor degree.