Judicial Papers of Alexander Francis Ball

Farewell Address

Closing address reflecting on judicial service, local court work, and the end of Judge Ball's tenure as Justice of the Peace.

April 6, 2025 · Alexander Francis Ball · Farewell address

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Collection and series

Judicial Papers of Alexander Francis Ball

Series IV. Public Role, Writing, and Programmatic Communication within the Judicial Papers of Alexander Francis Ball.

Collection guide: Judicial Papers of Alexander Francis Ball

Current release

Judicial public tranche 2026-04-22

Judicial public tranche 2026-04-22, released April 22, 2026.

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Record description

This outward-facing farewell text reflects on the close of judicial service, frames local justice-court work in civic and constitutional terms, and names court staff and administrators whose work is credited as part of the court's institutional life. Ball Archives describes it as a metadata-only public record page and dates it from the file-level timestamp because the reviewed text does not carry a fuller explicit date line inside the document.

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Provenance

Descriptive record based on a local PDF in the private Pima County Justice Court source root. Ball Archives currently dates the record from the file-level timestamp (April 6, 2025) because the reviewed text does not itself carry a fuller explicit date heading. The private/local file system remains the source of record.

Preferred citation

"Farewell Address," April 6, 2025, Judicial Papers of Alexander Francis Ball, Ball Archives, https://ballarchives.org/items/farewell-address-2025.

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