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Since 1959, there have been 34 states which have appointed or elected women as attorneys-general. Puerto Rico has had a record four women hold office as attorney general, the most of any U.S. state or territory. Anne X. Alpern of Pennsylvania is the first woman to hold office as the attorney-general of a state. [1]
The 2024 United States attorney general elections were held on November 5, 2024, to elect the attorneys general of ten U.S. states. The previous elections for this group of states took place in 2020 , while Vermont 's attorney general was last elected in 2022 .
Destiny Wells celebrates after being named the Democrat nominee for attorney general on Saturday, July 13, 2024, during the Indiana Democratic State Convention in Indianapolis.
Mayes was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 Arizona Attorney General election, running against Republican Abraham Hamadeh. [15] The race was one of the closest in Arizona history and required a mandatory recount because the vote difference was significantly less than the 0.5% vote threshold required by state law for recounts. [ 16 ]
A spokesperson for incumbent Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, a Democrat who has been serving since 1997, and the first woman elected to a statewide, executive-branch office in North Carolina ...
We asked candidates running in the Democratic primary for attorney general to tell us what their top priorities for the office would be.
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 ...
Still, recent contests for the attorney general’s office have been exceedingly close. Stein defeated Republican Buck Newton to win his first term in office in 2016 by 24,613 votes, or 0.54%.