From 8461b771582e81da345fb0dd8ec5315175ca8789 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SusmithBarigidad <31435515+SusmithBarigidad@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:53:21 -0700
Subject: [PATCH]  Support min/max on ArrowStringArray #42597

---
 pandas/core/arrays/string_arrow.py | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pandas/core/arrays/string_arrow.py b/pandas/core/arrays/string_arrow.py
index ab8599f0f05ba..62196d249e103 100644
--- a/pandas/core/arrays/string_arrow.py
+++ b/pandas/core/arrays/string_arrow.py
@@ -379,6 +379,20 @@ def _reduce(self, name: str, skipna: bool = True, **kwargs):
             return getattr(self, name)(skipna=skipna)
 
         raise TypeError(f"Cannot perform reduction '{name}' with string dtype")
+        
+    def min(self, axis=None, skipna: bool = True, **kwargs) -> Scalar:
+        nv.validate_min((), kwargs)
+        result = masked_reductions.min(
+            values=self.to_numpy(), mask=self.isna(), skipna=skipna
+        )
+        return self._wrap_reduction_result(axis, result)
+
+    def max(self, axis=None, skipna: bool = True, **kwargs) -> Scalar:
+        nv.validate_max((), kwargs)
+        result = masked_reductions.max(
+            values=self.to_numpy(), mask=self.isna(), skipna=skipna
+        )
+        return self._wrap_reduction_result(axis, result)
 
     @property
     def nbytes(self) -> int: