The head of the Arizona National Guard is quitting.But Adjutant General Kerry Muehlenbeck said it’s not because she’s unhappy with the job or with being the head of the Department of Emergency and Military Affairs under Gov. Katie Hobbs.
She actually was one of the few agency chiefs named by former Gov. Doug Ducey that Hobbs kept on after taking office in 2023. In fact, she will be the first to leave of her own volition, with others forced out over internal issues or their inability to get confirmed by the Senate.
Instead, Muehlenbeck told Capitol Media Services that the time has come — literally — for her to return to her old job of teaching criminal justice studies at Mesa Community College.
That’s because federal law requires civilian employers to keep someone’s job open for up to five years while they are serving in the military. And that five years, she said, is up this year.
Her departure, though, sets the stage for Hobbs to choose a replacement. More to the point, that person will have to survive what has become an intense grilling at the hands of the Senate Committee on Director Nominations, a panel formed specifically to screen the picks of the new governor.
Any questions for her replacement, not expected to be named until Muehlenbeck leaves in June, are likely to depend on who the governor picks.
But Sen. Jake Hoffman, who head …
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