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Pages in category "Virginia attorneys general" ... Ken Cuccinelli's tenure as Attorney General of Virginia; Richard Cullen (attorney) ... James Innes (Virginia) J.
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]
The statewide elected officials are governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general. All three officers are separately elected four-year terms in years following presidential elections (1997, 2001, 2005, etc.) and take office in January of the following year. Virginia is one of only five states that elects its state
Virginia’s current Attorney General Jason Miyares followed Jones’ announcement with his own statement on X. “Both of the announced Democrat candidates for Attorney General are far-left, anti ...
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 Lawrence Earley (born July 26, 1954) is an American attorney and former politician. A Republican, he was elected to the Virginia State Senate (1988–1998), and then elected Attorney General of Virginia (1998 to 2001). In 2001, he resigned as Attorney General to focus his time on the 2001 campaign for Governor of Virginia.
After the November general elections and as the U.S. House considered a bill to readmit Virginia to the Union, General Canby removed Charles Whittlesey, whom he had appointed Attorney General in September, on January 19, and appointed Taylor in his place so that his service could begin slightly earlier. The U.S. House passed a bill re-admitting ...
Under the Virginia Constitution of 1901, the secretary of the Commonwealth was an elected post, along with the governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general. Under Virginia's current constitution, enacted in 1971, and with the creation of the Governor's Cabinet during the administration of Governor A. Linwood Holton Jr., the secretary of ...