By Tom Blodgett
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Voters may recognize the names of the two candidates running for the Arizona Senate from Legislative District 14.

Republican Warren Petersen is not only the incumbent but the Arizona Senate president. Democrat Elizabeth Brown has run for the Senate unsuccessfully twice before.

The two are unopposed in their primary elections July 30 and figure to meet in the general election Nov. 5.

Here are their biographies.

Elizabeth Brown, Democratic candidate for Arizona Senate in Legislative District 14.

Courtesy Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Brown 

Democrat Elizabeth Brown is a mother of two daughters and a grandmother of five.  

She has lived in Arizona since 1981 and has been an active community member.  

Brown worked for both Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano and Republican Gov. Jan Brewer in the Office of Constituent Services. 

Brown ran unsuccessfully for Arizona Senate in 2016 and 2018. 

Sen. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert

Courtesy Arizona Legislature

Warren Petersen 

Warren Petersen is the incumbent Senator from Legislative District 14 and serves as the president of the Arizona Senate. He is a Republican. 

He was first elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2012 and serves the chairman of the Judiciary Committee and also on the Government, Ethics and Finance Committee. 

Petersen is a third-generation Gilbert resident. He has worked in the real-estate industry for more than 20 years, primarily in new home construction, and has owned a real estate brokerage for more than a decade. 

Petersen graduated from Gilbert High School and received his bachelor's degree from Arizona State and a J.D. from ASU Law. 

Tom Blodgett
Senior News Editor | Gilbert

tblodgett@iniusa.org

Meet Tom
Tom Blodgett joined Independent Newsmedia, Inc., USA, in 2022, when the company acquired Community Impact Newspaper's Phoenix-area properties. Raised in Arizona, he has spent more than 35 years in journalism in the state.

Community: He has served as an instructional professional in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication since 2005, and is editorial adviser to The State Press, the university's independent student media outlet. He also is director of operations for an 18U girls fastpitch softball team from Gilbert.

Education: Arizona State University with a BS in Journalism. 

Random Fact: He lived in Belgium during his freshman year of high school.  

Hobbies: Tweeting enthusiastically about ASU softball (season-ticket holder) and grumpily about other local sports (pessimistic fan).