A chronological list of past New Jersey attorneys general is below.
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| Andrew J. Bruck (Acting) | 2021 – 2022 |
| Gurbir S. Grewal | 2018 – 2021 |
| Christopher S. Porrino | 2016 – 2018 |
| Robert Lougy | 2016 |
| John Jay Hoffman | 2013 – 2016 |
| Jeffrey Chiesa | 2012 – 2013 |
| Paula T. Dow | 2010 – 2011 |
| Anne Milgram | 2007 – 2010 |
| Stuart Rabner | 2006 – 2007 |
| Zulima V. Farber | 2006 |
| Stuart Rabner | 2006 – 2007 |
| Peter C. Harvey | 2003 – 2006 |
| David Samson | 2002 – 2003 |
| John J. Farmer, Jr. | 1999 – 2002 |
| Peter G. Verniero | 1996 – 1999 |
| Deborah T. Poritz | 1994 – 1996 |
| Robert J. Del Tufo | 1990 – 1994 |
| Peter N. Perretti, Jr. | 1989 – 1990 |
| W. Cary Edwards | 1986 – 1989 |
| Irwin Kimmelman | 1982 – 1986 |
| James R. Zazzali | 1981 – 1982 |
| John J. Degnan | 1978 – 1981 |
| William F. Hyland | 1974 – 1978 |
| George F. Kugler | 1970 – 1974 |
| Arthur J. Sills | 1962 – 1970 |
| David D. Furman | 1958 – 1962 |
| Grover G. Richman, Jr. | 1954 – 1958 |
| Theodore D. Parsons | 1949 – 1954 |
| William A. Stevens | 1929 – 1934 |
| Edward L. Katzenbach | 1924 – 1929 |
| Thomas F. McCran | 1919 – 1924 |
| John W. Wescott | 1914 – 1919 |
| Edmund Wilson | 1908 – 1914 |
| Robert H. McCarter | 1903 – 1908 |
| Thomas N. McCarter | 1902 – 1903 |
| Samuel H. Grey | 1897 – 1902 |
| John P. Stockton | 1877 – 1897 |
| Jacob Vanatta | 1875 – 1877 |
| Joel Parker | 1875 |
| Robert Gilchrist | 1870 – 1875 |
| George M. Robeson | 1867 – 1870 |
| F. T. Frelinghuysen | 1861 – 1867 |
| William L. Dayton | 1857 – 1861 |
| Richard P. Thompson | 1852 – 1857 |
| Lucius Q. C. Elmer | 1850 – 1852 |
| Abraham Browning | 1845 – 1850 |
| Richard P. Thompson | 1844 – 1845 |
| George P. Mollesson | 1841 – 1844 |
| Richard S. Field | 1838 – 1841 |
| John Moore White | 1833 – 1838 |
| Samuel L. Southard | 1829 – 1833 |
| Theodore Frelinghuysen | 1817 – 1829 |
| Aaron D. Woodruff | 1812 – 1817 |
| Andrew S. Hunter | 1811 |
| Aaron D. Woodruff | 1792 – 1811 |
| Joseph Bloomfield | 1783 – 1792 |
| William Paterson | 1776 – 1783 |
| Cortlandt Skinner | 1754 – 1776 |
| Joseph Warrell | 1733 – 1754 |
| Lawrence Smyth | 1728 – 1733 |
| James Alexander | 1723 – 1728 |
| Jeremiah Basse | 1719 – 1723 |
| Thomas Gordon | 1714 – 1719 |
| Alexander Griffith | 1704 – 1714 |
