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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 state attorney general in each of the 50 U.S. states, of the federal district, or of any of the territories is the chief legal advisor to the state government and the state's chief law enforcement officer.
Kamala Harris was elected the attorney general of California in 2010, becoming the first woman, Black American, and South Asian American to hold the office in the state's history. She took office on January 3, 2011, and would be re-elected in 2014 to serve until she resigned on January 3, 2017, to take her seat in the United States Senate .
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 ...
T. Scott Renick, the New Kent County commonwealth's attorney, is handling the case after the office of Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares voluntarily handed off its jurisdiction last year.
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]
According to a letter dated Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, Virginia's attorney general has lambasted a state commission that is investigating a 2019 mass shooting in Virginia Beach, citing the panel's ...