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[16] [17] She is the first Democrat to serve as attorney general since Jennifer Granholm left the office in 2003, sixteen years earlier to become the new Michigan Governor. [ 18 ] Nessel immediately withdrew Michigan from eight federal lawsuits initiated by Schuette involving the separation of church and state, LGBTQ discrimination ...
The attorney general of the State of Michigan is the fourth-ranking official in the U.S. state of Michigan. The officeholder is elected statewide in the November general election alongside the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, members of the Senate and members of the House of Representatives.
Michael Anthony Cox (born December 30, 1961) is an American attorney and politician who served as Michigan's 52nd Attorney General from 2003 to 2011. He was the first Republican to hold that office since Frank Millard in 1955.
In October 2017, Tom Leonard announced his campaign to be Michigan's next attorney general. [74] Leonard would be the first attorney general to have previous experience working in the office. [75] Leonard named fighting violent crime, prosecuting sexual predators and putting a stop to the opioid epidemic as his top priorities. [76]
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel blasted as anti-Semitic U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib's criticism of her charges against pro-Palestinian protesters.
Kelley was appointed Attorney General in 1961 by Governor John Swainson to fill a vacancy left when Paul L. Adams became a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.Kelley was elected in his own right as the Democratic nominee ten times before his retirement [E] from the position in 1999, when he was succeeded by the future Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm.