Category: State Attorney General

Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte


Kelly Ayotte served as New Hampshire's United States senator from 2011 to 2017. On July 24, 2023, Ayotte announced her candidacy for governor of New Hampshire. Ayotte was born June 27, 1968, in Nashua, New Hampshire. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in political science. In 1993, she graduated from Villanova University School of Law with a Juris Doctor. From 199301994, Ayotte served as a law clerk in the New Hampshire supreme court, then worked in private practice until 1998 when she became a […]
Bonnie J. Campbell
Bonnie J. Campbell


Bonnie J. Campbell is a former Iowa attorney general and a former official in the U.S. Department of Justice. Campbell was born on April 9, 1948, in Norwich, New York, and grew up in upstate New York. After graduating from high school, she moved to Washington, D.C, and worked as a clerk-stenographer for several politicians from 1965 to 1967, then as a clerk for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations from 1967 to 1969. From 1969 to 1974, she was a caseworker in the office of U.S. Senator Harold […]
Catherine Cortez Masto
Catherine Cortez Masto


Catherine Cortez Masto assumed office as a U.S. senator from Nevada in January 2017. She is the first woman to represent Nevada in the U.S. Senate and the first Latina senator in U.S. history. Cortez Masto was born on March 29, 1964, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cortez Masto earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in finance from the University of Nevada in 1986 and a J.D. from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1990. Cortez Masto served as attorney general of Nevada from 2007 to 2015, and was […]
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer M Granholm


Jennifer Granholm was confirmed as U.S. secretary of energy on Feb. 25, 2021. Granholm was the first female governor of Michigan, serving from 2003-2011. She was also Michigan's first female attorney general, serving from 1999-2003. Granholm was born February 5, 1959, in Canada. Her family moved to California when she was four years old; she became a U.S. citizen in 1980. She graduated with honors from the University of California-Berkeley in 1984 with a bachelor of arts degree in political science and French. She then graduated with honors from Harvard […]
Christine Gregoire
Christine Gregoire


Christine Gregoire served as Washington's governor from 2005-2013. Gregoire was born on March 24, 1947, and raised in Auburn, Washington. She earned a bachelor's degree in speech and sociology from the University of Washington in 1969. She worked at Washington's Department of Social and Health Service before returning to law school as Gonzaga University, where she earned a Juris Doctorate degree in 1977. After law school, Gregoire clerked for the Spokane attorney general and then was an assistant attorney general. From 1988-1992, she served as the director of the Washington […]
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris


Kamala D. Harris assumed office as vice president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2021, the first woman to serve in that office. She previously served as a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021. Harris was the first Indian American to serve as a U.S. senator and only the second Black female in the U.S. Senate. In January 2019, she announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States but withdrew from the race in December 2019. In August 2020, she was chosen […]
Maura Healey
Maura Healey


Maura Healey assumed office as governor of Massachusetts on Jan. 5, 2023, the state's first elected female governor and with Tina Kotek of Oregon, one of the first two openly lesbian women to be elected governor. Healey was born on February 8, 1971, at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. She graduated from Harvard College in 1992 with a degree in government. Co-captain of the Harvard Crimson women's basketball team, Healey spent two years playing professional basketball in Europe after college. In 1998, she earned a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School […]
Heidi Heitkamp
Heidi Heitkamp


Heidi Heitkamp served as a U.S. senator from North Dakota from 2013 to 2019. She was North Dakota's second female senator, and the first to be elected. She lost her re-election bid in 2018. Heitkamp was born in Breckinridge, Minnesota, on October 30, 1955. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of North Dakota in 1977 and J.D. from Lewis and Clark College in 1980. Heitkamp worked as an attorney for the Environmental Protection Agency from 1980 to 1981. From 1981-1986 she was an attorney for the North Dakota […]
Janet Mills
Janet Mills


Janet Mills assumed office as governor of Maine on Jan. 2, 2019, the first woman elected governor of that state. Mills was born on December 30, 1947, in Farmington, Maine. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Maine School of Law. Mills served as an assistant attorney from 1976-1980, and then as a district attorney from 1980-1995. She served in Maine's House of Representatives from 2002-2009. She served as Maine's attorney general from 2009-2011 and from 2013-2019, […]
Janet Napolitano
Janet A Napolitano


Janet Napolitano has served as president of the University of California system since September 2013. Previously, she served as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013, the first woman to hold that post. Napolitano was born in New York City on November 29, 1957, and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She earned a Bachelor of Science in political science from Santa Clara University in 1979, where she was the university's first female valedictorian, and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in […]