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The Virginia Constitution of 1851 provided for the popular election of the attorney general. [3] Mary Sue Terry, sworn in in 1986, was Virginia's first female attorney general. [4] Jason Miyares, sworn in on January 15, 2022, is the state's first Latino attorney general. [5]
Jason Stuart Miyares (born February 11, 1976) is an American attorney and politician serving as the 48th Attorney General of Virginia since 2022. A Republican, he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2015, from the 82nd district in northeastern Virginia Beach, and served three terms from 2016 to 2022.
The most prevalent method of selecting a state's attorney general is by popular election. 43 states have an elected attorney general. [1] Elected attorneys general serve a four-year term, except in Vermont, where the term is two years. [2] Seven states do not popularly elect an attorney general.
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]
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares filed an emergency petition with the high court hours after a federal appeals court on Sunday upheld a lower court's ruling stopping the purge. U.S ...
Jun. 18—richmond, va. — Attorney General Jason Miyares announced Monday that a new Elder Abuse Investigation Center was coming to Central Virginia. Attorney General Miyares was joined by ...
Mark Rankin Herring (born September 25, 1961) [1] is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 47th Attorney General of Virginia from 2014 to 2022. A Democrat, he previously served in the Senate of Virginia since a 2006 special election, representing the 33rd district, made up of parts of Fairfax and Loudoun counties.
Virginia's attorney general has advised officials from the state’s retirement system against making investment decisions that prioritize environmental issues, social issues and corporate ...