Attorney General of Alabama

Attorney General of Alabama
Attorney General of Alabama
	Seal of the attorney general of Alabama
	Incumbent; Steve Marshall; since February 10, 2017
	Government of Alabama
Type	Constitutional officer
Residence	Montgomery, Alabama
Appointer	Elected
Term length	Four years, renewable once consecutively
Formation	1819
First holder	Henry Hitchcock
Website	https://www.alabamaag.gov/

The attorney general of Alabama is an elected, constitutional officer of the State of Alabama. The office of the attorney general is located at the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. Henry Hitchcock was elected Alabama's first attorney general in 1819.

Duties

As is common in many states, the attorney general is the chief lawyer of the state. He is called upon as the chief defender of the laws of Alabama, the lawyer for state officials and represents the state in all matters brought before a court of law or tribunal. The attorney general (AG) also provides advisory opinions to local and state governments when questions arise about the constitutionality of proposed laws and regulations. It is the task of the attorney general to represent the state when questions arise concerning various criminal sentences including the death penalty.

From time to time, the attorney general may begin legal proceedings on behalf of the state or on behalf of consumers damaged by illegal or bad faith commercial transactions.

Organization

Eight divisions comprise the attorney general's office. Those divisions include: a General Crimes Division, a Public Corruption Division, Civil Division, Appellate Division, Consumer Protection Division, Constitutional Defense Division and a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Division chiefs include Clay J. Crenshaw, Olivia Martin, Billington Garret, M. Matt Hart, Bruce M. Lieberman, and Azzie Taylor.^[1]

List of attorneys general of Alabama

The chief deputy attorney general is Alice Martin^[2] Andrew Brasher previously served as the solicitor general from 2014-2019; Edmund LaCour is the current solicitor general.^[3]^[4]

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Party
1	Henry Hitchcock	1819	1823
2	Thomas White	1823	1825
3	Constantine Perkins	1825	1832
4	Peter Martin	1832	1836
5	Alexander Meek	1836	1836
6	John D. Phelan	1836	1838	Democratic
7	Lincoln Clark	1838	1839	Democratic
8	Matthew W. Lindsay	1839	1843
9	Thomas D. Clarke	1843	1847
10	William H. Martin	1847	1847
11	Marion A. Baldwin	1847	1865
12	John W. A. Sanford	1865	1868
13	Benjamin Gardner	1868	1870
14	John W. A. Sanford	1870	1872
15	Henry Tompkins	1878	1884
16	Thomas McClellan	1884	1889
17	William L. Martin	1889	1894
18	William C. Fitts	1894	1898
19	Charles G. Brown	1898	1903
20	Massey Wilson	1903	1907
21	Alexander M. Garber	1907	1911	Democratic
22	Robert Brickell	1911	1915	Democratic
23	William Logan Martin	1915	1918
24	F. Lloyd Tate	1918	1918
25	Emmet S. Thigpen	1918	1919
26	James Q. Smith	1919	1921	Democratic
27	Harwell G. Davis	1921	1927	Democratic
28	Charlie C. McCall	1927	1931
29	Thomas E. Knight	1931	1935	Democratic
30	Albert A. Carmichael	1935	1939
31	Thomas S. Lawson	1939	1942
32	William N. McQueen	1943	1947	Democratic
33	Albert A. Carmichael	1947	1951
34	Si Garrett	1951	1954
35	Bernard Sykes	1954	1955
36	John Malcolm Patterson	1955	1959	Democratic
37	MacDonald Gallion	1959	1963	Democratic
38	Richmond Flowers	1963	1967	Democratic
39	MacDonald Gallion	1967	1971	Democratic
40	William J. Baxley	1971	1979	Democratic
41	Charles A. Graddick	1979	1987	Democratic
42	Don Siegelman	1987	1991	Democratic
43	Jimmy Evans	1991	1995	Democratic
44	Jeff Sessions	1995	1997	Republican
45	Bill Pryor	1997	2004	Republican
46	Troy King	2004	2011	Republican
47	Luther Strange	2011	2017	Republican
48	Steve Marshall	2017	present	Republican