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The Commonwealth Attorneys Act of 1980 [6] established the Office of Attorney General as an independent office headed by an elected attorney general. [7] The office has the responsibility for the prosecution of those crimes prosecuted by the commonwealth, including organized crime and public corruption, as well as civil litigation on behalf of some, but not all, commonwealth agencies and the ...
Pennsylvania Attorney General; Pennsylvania Auditor General; Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole; Pennsylvania Department of Aging; Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
The state attorney general in each of the 50 U.S. states, ... State Party Assumed office Term expires Law school ... Pennsylvania: Republican: January 21, 2025:
The office is one of Pennsylvania’s three independent row offices (the other two are the state treasurer and the state auditor general), and at least one past attorney general has seized on that ...
She previously served under Shapiro as first deputy attorney general. Henry formerly served as the district attorney of Bucks County, Pennsylvania from 2008 to 2010. She declined to run for election to a full term in the attorney general's office in the 2024 election. Shapiro subsequently appointed Henry to become Pennsylvania Inspector General ...
The office of the District Attorney of Philadelphia is the largest prosecutor's office in the state of Pennsylvania and oversees a jurisdiction that includes more than 1.5 million citizens of both the city and county of Philadelphia. [1] The current District Attorney of Philadelphia is Larry Krasner.
The 2024 Pennsylvania Attorney General election was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the attorney general of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Republican York County district attorney Dave Sunday defeated former auditor general Eugene DePasquale in the general election, becoming the first Republican attorney general since 2013. [ 1 ]
Joshua David Shapiro (born June 20, 1973) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 48th governor of Pennsylvania since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the attorney general of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2023 and was on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners from 2012 to 2017.