Brewer, Janice K. (Janice Kay), 1944-

Janice Kay Brewer (née Drinkwine, formerly Warren; born September 26, 1944) is an American politician and author who served as the 22nd Governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Brewer is the fourth woman (and was the third consecutive woman) to serve as Governor of Arizona. Brewer assumed the governorship as part of the line of succession, as determined by the Arizona Constitution, when Governor Janet Napolitano resigned to become U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Brewer had served as Secretary of State of Arizona from January 2003 to January 2009.

Born in Los Angeles, California and raised there and in Hawthorne, Nevada, Brewer attended Glendale Community College in Phoenix, Arizona where she received a radiological technologist certificate; she has never earned a college degree. She served as a State Representative and State Senator for Arizona from 1983 to 1996. Brewer also served as Chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors before running for Arizona Secretary of State in 2002.

Brewer is the author of Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure America's Border, published November 2011 by Broadside Books. As the Arizona Constitution limits the governor to two consecutive terms, regardless of whether they serve full or partial terms, Brewer was unable to run for a second full four-year term in 2014.