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ALABAMA served as vice-chair of the Education Committee. Attorney Luther Strange (R) General Horne brings 24 years of school board experience Prior to his election, Attorney as a member of the board of the third largest district in General Strange was an attorney the state. He received his undergraduate degree magna and founder of Strange LLC, a law cum laude from Harvard College and his J.D. with honors fi rm based in Birmingham. Prior from the Harvard Law School. to founding Strange LLC, he was a Attorney General Horne appointed Eric Bistrow as partner with the law fi rm of Bradley chief deputy and Margaret Garcia Dugan as chief of staff. Arant Boult Cummings LLP. Attorney STRANGE CALIFORNIA General Strange received both his Kamala Harris (D) undergraduate and law degrees from . Attorney General Kamala Harris Active in his church and community, He is an Eagle Scout served two terms as district attorney and Rotarian and serves on the Advisory Board of the in San Francisco. First elected in United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, 2003, she was overwhelmingly New York. re-elected to a second term in Attorney General Strange appointed Richard Allen as November 2007. She graduated from chief deputy. Mr. Allen had previously served as chief Howard University, and then went to HARRIS deputy to Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor. the University of California, Hastings ALASKA College of the Law. After graduating from law school, she John Burns took a position in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Attorney General Burns was Offi ce, where she specialized in prosecuting child sexual appointed by Gov. Sean Parnell in assault cases. As a deputy district attorney she also December 2010. He received a prosecuted cases for homicide and robbery. She worked bachelor’s degree in history from the at that offi ce from 1990 to 1998 before going on to serve University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Offi ce. During her and a J.D. from the University of tenure as a district attorney, she was elected to the Board Puget Sound School of Law. He has of Directors of the California District Attorneys Association BURNS served as an adjunct faculty member and as vice president of the National District Attorneys at UAF, teaching graduate and undergraduate business Association. Attorney General Harris is the author of the law courses. Prior to establishing the law fi rm of Borgeson book, “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to & Burns in 1999, he worked for Birch Horton Bittner & Make Us Safer.” Cherot. Attorney General Burns is a member of the board Attorney General Harris appointed Matt Rodriquez of directors of Hospice of the Tanana Valley and serves on as chief deputy for legal affairs and Michael Troncoso as the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee for UAF. He is also a chief deputy for administration and policy. participant in the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization. CONNECTICUT Attorney General Burns appointed Jim Cantor as his George Jepsen (D) chief deputy. Elected in November 2010, George ARIZONA Jepsen took offi ce as Attorney Tom Horne (R) General on January 4, 2011. He is Prior to being elected as the Arizona a graduate of Dartmouth College, Attorney General in 2010, Tom and Harvard Law School, where he Horne was elected Arizona State graduated with honors and also earned a master’s degree in public Superintendent of Public Instruction JEPSEN in 2002, and was re-elected to a policy from the Kennedy School. To second four-year term in 2006. He help pay for his education, he worked as a teaching fellow served in the Arizona legislature in Constitutional Law for former Watergate prosecutor HORNE from 1996-2000, during which time Archibald Cox. Following graduation he went to work as he chaired the Academic Accountability Committee and staff counsel for the carpenters’ union (UBC Local 210)

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for western Connecticut. Attorney General Jepsen served Board, and is a member of the Junior League Board of 16 years in the Connecticut General Assembly, fi rst as a Directors, and the University of Florida Gator Club Board state representative, and then as a state senator – the of Directors. last six as Majority Leader. Attorney General Bondi appointed Carlos Muniz as Attorney General Jepsen appointed Nora Dannehy as deputy attorney general. deputy attorney general. GEORGIA DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Sam Olens (R) Irvin Nathan Before being elected Attorney Irvin B. Nathan was nominated in General, Sam Olens previously December 2010 by the new mayor served as the chairman of the Cobb of Washington, D.C., Vincent Gray, County Board of Commissioners as the new Attorney General for the from August 2002 through March District of Columbia. He is serving as 2010. Previously he served as Cobb the acting Attorney General pending County District 3 commissioner from OLENS confi rmation by the City Council. Prior 1999 through June 2002. From NATHAN to his arrival at the Offi ce of Attorney December 2004 through 2009, he was chairman of the General, he was the general counsel of the U.S. House Atlanta Regional Commission. He was also vice chair of of Representatives, where he served from November the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District 2007 until January 2, 2011. For more than 30 years, he from 2005 through March 2010. Attorney General Olens practiced with the Washington, D.C. law fi rm of Arnold was appointed by Gov. Sonny Perdue to represent the and Porter, where he was a senior litigating partner and 6th Congressional District on Georgia’s Department of head of the fi rm’s white-collar criminal defense practice. Community Affairs Board in 2003 and served through He has served as a deputy assistant attorney general and 2010. He graduated from the Emory University School principal associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. of Law in 1983 and was a member of Ezor & Olens, P.C. Department of Justice. He also served as the vice chair of from 1983 through 2010. He is a registered mediator/ the Board of Professional Responsibility of the District of arbitrator with the Georgia Offi ce of Dispute Resolution. Columbia and as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Jeff Milsteen continues to serve as chief deputy. University Law Center and the University of San Diego Law GUAM School. He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University Law School. Lenny Rapadas Attorney General Rapadas is a FLORIDA graduate of Willamette University Pam Bondi (R) School of Law. Upon graduation Elected in 2010, Attorney General he served as an assistant attorney Pam Bondi is a graduate of the general in the Criminal Division of the University of Florida and Stetson Guam Attorney General’s Offi ce. He Law School. She served as a front- held the position of chief prosecutor RAPADAS line prosecutor for over 18 years. for three years. In 2003, he was Her investigative and courtroom appointed and confi rmed as U.S. Attorney for the Districts experience includes the successful of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands and served in BONDI prosecution of numerous fi rst- that position for seven years. While U.S. Attorney, he was degree murder cases and two capital cases. Attorney a member of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee General Bondi served as Felony Bureau chief and a key (AGAC), serving on the Border and Immigration Security, member of internal homicide, vehicular homicide, and Controlled Substances and Asset Forfeiture, Environment DUI manslaughter committees. She also served on the and Natural Resources, and Intellectual Property Sub- Executive Committee responsible for budget, personnel Committees, as well as the Military Issues Working Group. and legal strategies. Attorney General Bondi has served as He was elected as Guam Attorney General in November the vice chair of the Florida Bar Grievance Committee, is 2010. active with the Tampa Bay United Way and the Children’s Phil Tydingco will serve as Attorney General Rapadas’ chief deputy.

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HAWAII Attorney General Schmidt appointed John Campbell David Louie as chief deputy and Eric Montgomery as chief of staff. David Louie was appointed as by Hawaii’s new William Schneider , Neil Abercrombie. He Bill Schneider is a career prosecutor, graduated from Occidental College, a retired U.S. Army offi cer, and a and received his law degree from former assistant Republican leader in Boalt Hall School of Law at the the Maine House of Representatives. University of California, Berkeley. LOUIE He graduated in 1981 from the Attorney General Louie has served United States Military Academy as the director, vice president and president of the at West Point. He served with SCHNEIDER Hawaii Bar Association, and on the Board of Directors distinction in the U.S. Army, earning of the Hawaii Supreme Court Special Committee on his Special Forces Tab, Ranger Tab, and Senior Airborne Judicial Performance. He has also served as lawyer Wings, and being awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. representative for the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit He retired due to a service-connected injury. After working and as the Northwest Regional governor for the National for an engineering company as a project manager on Asian Pacifi c American Bar Association. Immediately Defense Department physical security programs for before becoming Attorney General he served as a partner several years, he attended the University of Maine Law in the Honolulu law fi rm Roeca, Louie and Hiraoka. School, graduating with honors in 1993. He served for Russell Suzuki continues as fi rst deputy attorney gen- the next fi ve years as an assistant Maine attorney general eral. and prosecutor on the Maine Drug Task Force. In 1998, KANSAS he was elected to Maine House of Representatives. He (R) served on the Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary Attorney General Schmidt earned his and several special committees. In his second term, bachelor’s degree in journalism from he was elected assistant Republican leader, serving on the University of Kansas, his master’s the Legislative Council, House Elections Committee, degree in international politics from and several task forces. After the September 11, 2001 the University of Leicester in the terrorist attacks, He was recruited to serve as the federal United Kingdom, and his law degree anti-terrorism coordinator in the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce from Georgetown University Law for the District of Maine. He served as an assistant U.S. SCHMIDT Center. Before being elected Attorney Attorney, conducting investigations and working with local, General, he served 10 years as a Kansas state senator state, federal and international partners. In addition, representing the 15th district in Southeast Kansas, the he handled a wide variety of civil and criminal cases, last six years of which he served as Majority Leader for including defending the U.S. against immigration appeals the Senate Republican Caucus. During his service in by illegal aliens and prosecuting criminals from violent the Senate, he served as chairman of the Agriculture offenders to illegal aliens. Most recently, he was selected Committee, the Confi rmations Oversight Committee, to serve on the Guantanamo Review Task Force. the Legislative Post Audit Committee, and the Special Linda Pistner will continue as chief deputy attorney Committee on Medicaid Reform. He served as vice general. chairman of the Judiciary Committee, the Assessment and MICHIGAN Taxation Committee and the Committee on Organization Bill Schuette (R) Calendar and Rules. He also worked in the private Attorney General Schuette graduated practice of law with the Independence fi rm Scovel Emert cum laude from Georgetown Heasty & Chubb. Before being elected to the Senate, he University, receiving a Bachelor of served as special counsel and legislative liaison to Gov. Science in Foreign Service. He also Bill Graves. Prior to that he served as assistant Kansas studied at the University of Aberdeen attorney general for consumer protection, as legislative in Scotland. He earned his law assistant to U.S. Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, and as degree from the University of San SCHUETTE legislative director and general counsel to U.S. Sen. Chuck Francisco. Attorney General Schuette Hagel. 6 THE NEW ATTORNEYS GENERAL

has extensive experience in both federal and state Representatives and served four terms. He gave up his government and has served Michigan in the executive, seat in 1990 to run for lieutenant governor of Ohio as legislative and judicial branches of government for three the running mate of George Voinovich. The Voinovich- decades. In 1984 he was elected to the U.S. House of DeWine ticket was elected in 1991. He was elected to Representatives and went on to serve three terms. In the U.S. Senate in 1994, where he served two terms, and 1990, he was Michigan’s Republican candidate for U.S. sat on both the Senate Judiciary and Select Intelligence Senate. In January 1991, Attorney General Schuette committees. was named director of the Michigan Department of Attorney General DeWine appointed Mary Mertz as Agriculture. In 1994, he was elected to the Michigan fi rst assistant attorney general. Senate, representing Michigan’s 35th Senate District. In OKLAHOMA 2002, he was elected to the Michigan Court of Appeals and served for 6 years as one of 28 appellate judges in Scott Pruitt (R) Michigan. He also served as senior counsel at the law fi rm Scott Pruitt received his B.A. from of Warner, Norcross & Judd from 2009 to 2010. Georgetown College and his law Carol Isaacs will continue as chief deputy attorney degree from the University of Tulsa, general. Pruitt ventured into private practice and specialized in Constitutional NEW YORK Law. In 1998, he was elected to Eric Schneiderman (D) the Oklahoma State Senate, serving PRUITT Attorney General Schneiderman until 2006. During his tenure he graduated from Amherst College in served as assistant Republican fl oor leader for four years. 1977 and Harvard Law School in Attorney General Pruitt was co-owner and managing 1982. Before being elected Attorney general partner of the Oklahoma City Redhawks triple-A General, he served in the New York baseball team in Oklahoma City. State Senate. Earlier in his career, Attorney General Pruitt appointed Robert Hudson as the Attorney General spent 15 years fi rst assistant attorney general and Crystal Drwenski as SCHNEIDERMAN in private practice as an attorney, chief of staff. and later as a partner at the fi rm of Kirkpatrick and PENNSYLVANIA Lockhart, where he handled complex litigation. He also served as a public interest lawyer for many years. Prior to William H. Ryan, Jr. his law career, Attorney General Schneiderman served as William H. Ryan Jr. was appointed a deputy sheriff where he started the fi rst comprehensive acting Attorney General in January drug and alcohol treatment program at the local jail, and 2011 by Governor and former he clerked for two years in the U.S. District Court for the Attorney General Tom Corbett. Southern District of New York. Acting Attorney General Ryan is Attorney General Schneiderman appointed Harlan a career prosecutor, serving as a county district attorney, the head Levy as chief deputy. RYAN of the Attorney General’s Criminal OHIO Law Division and most recently as fi rst deputy attorney Mike DeWine (R) general. Mike DeWine earned his Bachelor Since 1997 he has offered advice and guidance to of Science degree in education three Attorneys General – Tom Corbett, Jerry Pappert and from Miami University in Oxford, Mike Fisher – directing investigations involving public cor- Ohio and a Juris Doctor from Ohio ruption, organized crime, narcotics traffi cking and other Northern University, College of Law. public safety matters along with overseeing legal and ad- After law school he served as an ministrative matters for the Offi ce of Attorney General. assistant prosecuting attorney for Prior to joining the Attorney General’s Offi ce in 1997, Greene County, Ohio, and in 1976 he was twice elected district attorney of Delaware County, DEWINE was elected county prosecutor. In Pennsylvania. He began his legal career with the Dela- 1980 he was elected to the Ohio State Senate and served ware County District Attorney’s Offi ce in 1972, working as one term. In 1982 he was elected to the U.S. House of a legal intern while in law school, and rose to the position

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of fi rst assistant district attorney in 1981, a post he held This is his third stint in the Attorney General’s Offi ce. until being elected district attorney in 1987. Acting Attor- Previously, he served the offi ce as a prosecution division ney General Ryan was also president of the Pennsylvania intern under Charlie Condon and as an assistant attorney District Attorneys Association in 1993-94. He graduated general under Henry McMaster. from St. Joseph’s University and Villanova Law School. John McIntosh continues as chief deputy attorney RHODE ISLAND general. Peter Kilmartin (D) WYOMING After graduating from high school Greg Phillips Attorney General Kilmartin enrolled Greg Phillips was appointed by new Gov. Matt Mead to in the police academy and for 24 serve as Wyoming’s next Attorney General. He will take years served as a member of the offi ce in March 2011. Most recently he has served for Pawtucket Police Department, the past eight years as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s starting as an offi cer on patrol, Offi ce in Cheyenne. He graduated from the University of working his way up to becoming the Wyoming Law School. After law school, he clerked for KILMARTIN offi cer in charge of prosecutions two years for U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson. He also and retiring as a captain. He earned his B.A and J.D. at worked as a lawyer for the state of Wyoming and in private Roger Williams University. He was elected as a state practice in Cheyenne. Until his appointment takes effect representative in the Rhode Island legislature and served in March, he will serve as Gov. Mead’s special assistant there almost 20 years. He helped pass laws to protect for legislative affairs. children from predators, create a witness protection A photo of Greg Phillips was not available at press program, ban texting while driving, keep alcohol out time. of cars, put an end to pension abuses, strengthen domestic violence penalties, and forced health insurance companies to cover reconstructive surgery for women Former Attorneys General Now in following breast cancer mastectomies. He and his wife, Higher Offi ce Kristine also founded the Pawtucket Arts Festival in 1999. Gerald Coyne continues as deputy attorney general. A number of former Attorneys General have been elected or selected to serve in a higher offi ce. SOUTH CAROLINA Obama administration Alan Wilson (R) Attorney General Wilson graduated • Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano (for- from Francis Marion University mer Arizona Governor and Attorney General) in 1996 and the University of • Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar (former South Carolina School of Law in Colorado U.S. Senator and Attorney General) 2002. He began his legal career 112th Congress working for the late Judge Marc H. Westbrook before prosecuting The 112th Congress (2011-2012) has nine U.S. senators WILSON crimes across South Carolina and three representatives who have served as Attorney including violent crimes, white collar crime, public General of their respective states or territory: corruption, DUI, domestic violence and child abuse as • Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions both an assistant solicitor and as an assistant attorney • Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor general. In 2009, he left the Attorney General’s offi ce • Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman and entered private practice as a civil litigator with the • Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal fi rm of Willoughby & Hoefer in Columbia, S.C. Today, • New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte in addition to serving as Attorney General, he serves as a Judge Advocate General in the National Guard • New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman where he provides legal support for soldiers and assists • New Mexico Senator Tom Udall in the prosecution military crimes. He holds the rank • Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Major in the National Guard, and deployed to Iraq • Texas Senator John Cornyn where he was awarded the Combat Action Badge.

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• California Representative Daniel Lungren • Honorable Alexandro C. Castro, Associate Judge, • Kentucky Representative Ben Chandler Northern Mariana Islands Supreme Court • Representative Pedro Pierluisi • Honorable Fred Cowan, Circuit Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, Kentucky Governors • Honorable Charles A. Graddick, Circuit Judge, 13th There are nine current governors who served as state Judicial Circuit, Alabama Attorney General: • Honorable William U. Hill, Supreme Court Justice, • Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe Supreme Court of Wyoming • California Governor Jerry Brown • Honorable Jim Jones, Justice, Idaho Supreme Court • Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear • Honorable Larry Long, Judge, 2nd Judicial Circuit, • Missouri Governor Jeremiah “Jay” Nixon • Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval • Honorable Mike McGrath, Chief Justice, Supreme • New York Governor Court of Montana • Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett • Honorable Bill Mims, Justice, Virginia Supreme Court • Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell • Honorable Linley E. Pearson, Circuit Judge, Indiana • Washington Governor Christine O. Gregoire • Honorable Stuart Rabner, Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court U.S. Attorneys • Honorable Robert R. Rigsby, Judge, District of • Alicia Limtiaco, Guam and Northern Mariana Islands Columbia Superior Court, Washington, DC • Charles Oberly, Delaware • Honorable Vanessa Ruiz, Associate Judge, District of Current federal judges who previously served as Columbia Court of Appeals, Washington, DC Attorney General* • Honorable Ive A. Swan, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands • Honorable James E. Barrett, Senior Judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, Wyoming • Honorable Arabella W. Teal, Administrative Law Judge, District of Columbia Offi ce of Administrative Hearings, • Honorable D. Michael Fisher, Judge, Third Circuit Washington, DC Court of Appeals, Pennsylvania • Honorable Jeffrey R. Howard, Judge, First Circuit Court *Omissions? Please contact NAAG with any of Appeals, New Hampshire additions or updates, [email protected]. • Honorable Alan G. Lance, Sr., Judge, US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Washington, DC (former ) • Honorable William H. Pryor, Judge, 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Alabama SAVE THE DATE • Honorable James A. Redden, Senior Judge, U.S. District Court, Oregon NAAG PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVE SUMMIT Current state judges who previously served as America’s Attorney General* Financial • Honorable John P. Arnold, New Hampshire Superior Recovery: Court Judge Protecting Consumers • Honorable Mark Barnett, Circuit Court Judge, Hughes As We Rebuild County Courthouse, South Dakota • Honorable Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson, Judge, APRIL 11-12, 2011 Superior Court of Guam CHARLOTTE, N.C. • Honorable M. Jane Brady, Judge, Delaware Superior Court

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