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Weston W. Carpenter, a Phoenix Union High School board member, founded the school.
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The first graduating class of Phoenix Junior College was 5 student but it was the first time students graduated from the institution.
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In 1926, the Arizona State Legislature finally passed a law that legalized the creation and maintenance of Junior Colleges.
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The Phoenix Union High School board approved the construction of new buildings for its school and for the Phoenix Junior College.
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Phoenix College was never a segregated school so the student population was always diverse. Eldridge Gonaway was the first African American to be elected Student Body President of Phoenix Junior College.
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E. W. Montgomery was a prominent educator in Arizona for many years and became a board member for both PUHS and PJC.
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The board members of the Phoenix Union High School District vote to establish the Maricopa Junior College District. This would later become the MCCCD we know today.
