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Joan A. Lenard

Lenard worked for the Office of the State Attorney in the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida (Dade County) from 1976 to 1982, serving as assistant state attorney from 1976 to 1978, as chief of the Consumer Fraud Division from 1978 to 1980, and as chief of the Consumer and Economic Crime Division from 1980 to 1982.

Lacey A. Collier

After graduating from law school he served as an assistant state attorney for the First Judicial District from 1977 to 1984.


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Anna Pou case

State Attorney General Charles Foti announced the arrests the next day, at a widely televised news conference.

Charles Foti lost the 2007 election for state Attorney General after criticism for prosecuting Pou and the nurses.

Brian Moran

Previous Secretaries of Public Safety have included former Virginia state Attorney General Jerry Kilgore and John W. Marshall, the son of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Caleb Merrill Wright

He was in private practice in Georgetown, Delaware from 1933 to 1955, also serving as a deputy state attorney general of Delaware from 1935 to 1939 and an attorney to the Delaware State Senate from 1938 to 1939, and to the Delaware General Assembly from 1940 to 1941.

Carl Andrews

He also took the opportunity to publicly highlight several high-profile endorsements from leading members of the New York State Democratic Party, e.g. state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, and state Attorney General-and current gubernatorial candidate-Elliot Spitzer.

Charles Newton

Charles D. Newton (1861–1930), NY State Attorney General, 1919–1922

Chester B. McMullen

He served as state attorney for 20 years, until he was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives as the representative of Florida's 1st congressional district in the 1950 election.

Darrin Sharif

In August 2013, he announced his candidacy for the 2014 Newark mayoral election joining the field with fellow council members Ras Baraka and Anibal Ramos, Jr. and former Assistant State Attorney General Shavar Jeffries.

Dreamscape Online

At the time, public understanding of the role of ISPs was not well understood, so New York State Attorney General Dennis Vacco believed he could end internet child pornography by shutting down local ISPs services.

Driver's license in the United States

Texas was expected to also implement an enhanced driver's license program, but the program has been blocked by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, despite a state law authorizing the Texas Department of Public Safety to issue EDLs and a ruling by the state attorney general, Greg Abbott, that Texas' production of EDLs would comply with federal requirements.

Ed Thompson

Thompson became the Libertarian party nominee in April and ran against Democrat Jim Doyle, the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor Scott McCallum, former Lieutenant Governor who had assumed the office in 2001 after Governor Tommy Thompson left to become U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Edward E. Wilson

Moving to Chicago, he filled the post of assistant state attorney for Cook County, Illinois, from 1912 until his retirement in 1947.

George E. Pugh

After serving in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1848 to 1850, he served as State Attorney General from 1852 to 1854.

Giorgi Khachidze

In December 2004, he was appointed State Attorney for Mtskheta-Mtianeti district by the President of Georgia.

Hamilton Ward

Hamilton Ward, Jr., New York State Attorney General and son of Hamilton Ward, Sr.

Hamilton Ward, Sr., U.S. Representative and New York State Attorney General

I as in Icarus

Henri Volney, state attorney and member of the commission charged with investigating the assassination (based on the Warren Commission) refuses to agree to the commission's final findings.

Illinois gubernatorial election, 2002

The 2002 Illinois gubernatorial election pitted Congressman Rod Blagojevich and state Attorney General Jim Ryan.

Jeffrey Lundgren

State Attorney General Jim Petro appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati.

Joseph Curran

For information about the state attorney general in Maryland, see J. Joseph Curran, Jr.

North Carolina Democratic primary, 2008

Voters and watchdog groups complained that it was a turnout-suppression effort, and the state Attorney General Roy Cooper ordered them to stop making the calls.

Ras Baraka

Baraka is a candidate in the 2014 Newark mayoral election in a field that includes Council Members Anibal Ramos, Jr. and Darrin S. Sharif and former Assistant State Attorney General Shavar Jeffries.

Red Lake Indian Reservation

Many state residents turned against the plan, and it was ruled to be illegal by the state Attorney General Mike Hatch.

Robert L. Bobbitt

In 1929, Governor Dan Moody of Taylor, Texas, who had unseated Miriam Ferguson in the 1926 Democratic runoff election, appointed Bobbitt to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Claude Pollard as Texas state Attorney General.

Robert P. Griffin

He was elected November 8, 1966, to a full six-year term, defeating former Governor Soapy Williams by a 56% to 44% margin, commencing January 3, 1967 and was reelected in 1972, winning a tough race against state Attorney General Frank J. Kelley, and served from May 11, 1966, to January 2, 1979.

Schoonmaker

Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. (1828-1894), New York State Attorney General from 1877 to 1879

Tawana Brawley rape allegations

Under the authority of New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams, a grand jury was called to hear evidence.

Tekamah, Nebraska

Don Stenberg, State Treasurer of Nebraska and former State Attorney General

Texas gubernatorial election, 1982

The Democrats nominated one-term State Attorney General Mark White of Houston to face the outspoken and controversial Republican incumbent from Dallas for the general election.

Tordinci

In 2009, Croatian State Attorney's Office charged Colonel Boro Ivanović with war crimes committed against civilians in the village.

United States Senate election in New York, 1992

The Democratic primary campaign featured State Attorney General Robert Abrams, former U.S. Congresswoman and 1984 vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, Reverend Al Sharpton, Congressman Robert J. Mrazek, and New York City Comptroller and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman.

University of Maine School of Law

Many of Maine's judges, legal scholars, politicians and community leaders graduated from the law school, including the Chief Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Leigh Saufley and Daniel Wathen, state Attorney General G. Steven Rowe, State Senate President Libby Mitchell, U.S. District Court Judge John A. Woodcock, former Governor John McKernan and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine, Paula D. Silsby.

Wayne L. Kidwell

Wayne L. Kidwell (born June 15, 1938) is a retired Idaho Supreme Court justice and a former Idaho state attorney general who also has served as an Idaho state senator and an associate deputy attorney general in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.

Whiteclay, Nebraska

On February 22, 2012 an amended complaint seeking injunctive relief in the OST's lawsuit was filed in response to public comments made to the Nebraska Radio Network on February 10, 2012 by the Nebraska State Attorney General Jon Bruning, the highest law enforcement officer in the state.

Willem Johannes Leyds

Willem Johannes Leyds (Magelang, Dutch East Indies, 1 May 1859 – The Hague, Netherlands, 14 May 1940) was a Dutch lawyer and statesman, who made a career as State Attorney (1884-1889) and State Secretary (1889-1898) of the South African Republic.

William Sherman Jennings

In addition to his brother, who was a lawyer and state attorney, he was a first cousin to William Jennings Bryan, congressman and three-time Democratic presidential nominee.