Category: State Attorney General

Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte


Kelly Ayotte assumed office as governor of New Hampshire on January 9, 2025. Ayotte served as New Hampshire's United States senator from 2011 to 2017. 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 1993-1994, Ayotte served as a law clerk in the New Hampshire supreme court, then worked in private practice until 1998 when she became a prosecutor […]
Brenna Bird
Brenna Bird


Brenna Bird has served as Iowa’s attorney general since Jan. 3, 2023. Bird was born in 1976 in Iowa. She earned her bachelor's degree from Drake University and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School. Before taking office as Iowa attorney general, Bird served as counsel to Gov. Terry Branstad, a prosecutor, and Guthrie County attorney (2018-2022). Des Moines Register. 2022. “Where Brenna Bird & Tom Miller stand on key issues in Iowa attorney general race.” Oct. 4. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/10/04/meet-iowa-attorney-general-candidates-midterm-elections-2022-tom-miller-brenna-bird/10399243002 State of Iowa Office of the Attorney […]
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi


Pam Bondi assumed office as U.S. attorney general on February 4, 2025. Previously, she served as Florida's attorney general from 2011-2019, the first woman to serve in this role. Bondi was born on November 17, 1965 in Tampa, Florida. She earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of Florida in 1987 and graduated from Stetson University College of Law with a J.D. in 1990. Upon passing the Florida bar, Bondi worked as a prosecutor from 1991-2009. In 2010, Bondi was elected as Florida's attorney general and was […]
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 M Granholm
Jennifer M Granholm


Jennifer Granholm served as U.S. secretary of energy from 2021-2025. 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 Law School with […]
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 served as vice president of the United States from 2021-2025, the first woman to serve in that office. Following President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 re-election campaign on July 21, 2024, Harris announced her candidacy for president. On August 2, she announced that she had secured enough votes from Democratic Party delegates to win the party’s nomination. After a 107-day campaign, Harris lost in the general election to Donald Trump. Harris was the first Indian American to serve as a U.S. senator and only the second […]
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 in Maryland. 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 […]
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 […]