El Paso incorporated in 1873 and is the El Paso county seat. More than 70 Fortune 500 companies have offices in El Paso, including AT&T, ADP, Boeing, Charles Schwab, Delphi, Dish Network, Eureka, Hoover, Raytheon, Prudential Financial, USAA and Verizon Wireless.
Hispanic Business Magazine included 28 El Paso companies in its list of the 500 largest Hispanic owned businesses in the United States.
Sandra Day O’Connor (born March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas) is an American retired attorney and politician who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006.
Judge O’Connor was the first woman nominated to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on August 19, 1981 and, subsequently, the first woman confirmed on September 21, 1981 and took her seat on the Court on September 25, 1981 and she retired on January 31, 2006.
The federal courthouse in Phoenix, dedicated in 2000, is named in her honor. On August 12, 2009, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
El Paso, Texas is in a fast growing area for business creation. In the spirit of enterprising early settlers, El Paso is in an ideal two-state location where local individual creativity and skills can thrive and where self-starter entrepreneurs can create their owner-inspired dream business online or offline right here in El Paso.