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Steven Popps serves as Chief Deputy Attorney General of Virginia. From January 2022 to May 2024, Steven served as Deputy Attorney General for the Civil Division. Prior to joining Attorney General Miyares' administration, Popps was a litigation partner at an international law firm.
About the Attorney General. Attorney General Jason Miyares' story doesn't start in Virginia, but in Havana, Cuba when his mother, Miriam Miyares, fled communist Cuba, penniless and homeless. She immigrated to Virginia and raised Jason to appreciate freedom, fairness, and justice for all.
The 2021 Virginia attorney general election was held on November 2, 2021, to elect the next attorney general of Virginia. Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring attempted to win a third term. Herring initially planned to run for governor , but decided to run for re-election.
- Jason Miyares
- 50.4%
- Republican
- 1,647,100
The Office of the Attorney General is the Commonwealth's law firm. In addition to representing the interests of the people of Virginia, our clients are Virginia state government and the state agencies, boards and commissions that compose it.
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Mark Herring Attorney General Mark Herring was expected to run for governor this year before flipping the script and announcing his intentions to run for a third term. Herring, a former state senator from Loudoun County, has touted his office’s work to eliminate Virginia’s backlog of untested rape kits and to protect people’s access to health care ...
Leslie Haley Update— Haley lost out to Del. Miyares in the GOP convention Lesile Haley, a member of the Chesterfield Board of Supervisors who served as chair for two years, announced her campaign for Virginia attorney general in January. Haley said she’s running to bring “steady conservative leadership to Virginia” and that she would be guided by t...
Statewide candidates were required to submit their campaign finance reports from the end of 2020 on Jan. 15 and contributions from the first quarter of 2021in mid April. According to the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Projectand state records, Herring has been able to raise more than $1.7 million for his re-election bid and Del. Jones (D-Norfol...
The attorney general of Virginia is an elected constitutional position that holds an executive office in the government of Virginia. Attorneys general are elected for a four-year term in the year following a presidential election. There are no term limits restricting the number of terms someone can serve as attorney general.
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The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) provides legal services to the Commonwealth and works with law enforcement to promote successful, secure communities.
