Samuel Emiliano Brown

Samuel Emiliano Brown is a father, husband, and community leader. He currently serves as the Chief Civil Deputy County Attorney for the Pima County Attorney's Office. In that role he supervises a team of more than 40 attorneys and legal support staff. He previously served for over a decade as legal counsel for the Tucson Unified School District, leading efforts to enda 40-year-old desegregation consent decree. Sam is a member of both the California and Arizona Bars, and an executive board member of the Arizona Black Bar Association.

In his spare time, Samuel serves as the Board President of the Dunbar Coalition, Inc., an African American Arts and Cultural Center in Tucson that was once the site of Tucson's only segregated school for Black students. Sam has co-founded an annual rites of passage program at Trinity Missionary Baptist Church and Tucson's longest running open mic where local artists, poets, activists, and community members share their art in a safe and nurturing atmosphere.

After graduating from Tucson High he received a degree in Political Science (Business Minor) from the University of Arizona. He attended law school at American University in Washington D.C. where he served as Vice-President of the Black Law Students Association and Chairperson for the Latino Law Students Association, taught in D.C. public schools, and helped community organizations obtain 501(c)3 status and apply for federal grants.

He now serves on several local boards and continues to lend his time, mind, and energy to improving his community.