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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.
Cordray announced his 2008 candidacy for Ohio state attorney general on June 11, 2008. He was endorsed by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland. [76] [77] The vacancy in the office of the attorney general was created by the May 14, 2008, resignation of Marc Dann, who was embroiled in a sex scandal.
The daily administration of the state’s laws are carried out by six elected statewide officials; the chief executive the Governor, and their second in command the Lieutenant Governor, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the State Treasurer, the State Auditor, and by the staff and employees of the executive branch agencies.
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 ...
Jones served as a delegate from 2018-2021 and previously ran for attorney general in 2021 but lost in the primary. He also served as an assistant attorney general to the District of Columbia’s ...
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
Youngkin is trying to ensure that Virginia law enforcement complies through his budget proposal, but the provision will have to survive both the House of Delegates and Senate finance committees in ...