A chronological list of past Virginia attorneys general is below.
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Mark Herring | 2014 – 2022 |
Ken Cuccinelli | 2010 – 2014 |
William Mims | 2009 – 2010 |
Robert F. McDonnell | 2006 – 2009 |
Judith Williams Jagdmann | 2005 – 2006 |
Jerry W. Kilgore | 2002 – 2005 |
Randolph A. Beales | 2001 – 2002 |
Mark L. Earley | 1998 – 2001 |
Richard Cullen | 1997 – 1998 |
James S. Gilmore, III | 1994 – 1997 |
Stephen D. Rosenthal | 1993 – 1994 |
Mary Sue Terry | 1986 – 1993 |
William G. Broaddus | 1985 – 1986 |
Gerald L. Baliles | 1982 – 1985 |
John Marshall Coleman | 1978 – 1982 |
Anthony F. Troy | 1977 – 1978 |
Andrew P. Miller | 1970 – 1977 |
Robert Y. Button | 1962 – 1970 |
Frederick T. Gray | 1961 – 1962 |
A.S. Harrison, Jr. | 1958 – 1961 |
Kenneth C. Patty | 1957 – 1958 |
J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. | 1948 – 1957 |
Harvey B. Apperson | 1947 – 1948 |
Abram P. Staples | 1934 – 1947 |
John R. Sanders | 1918 – 1934 |
J.D. Hank, Jr. | 1918 – 1918 |
John Garland Pollard | 1914 – 1918 |
Samuel W. Williamson | 1910 – 1914 |
William A. Anderson | 1902 – 1910 |
A.J. Montague | 1898 – 1902 |
R. Carter Scott | 1897 – 1898 |
R. Taylor Scott | 1890 – 1897 |
Rufus A. Ayers | 1886 – 1890 |
Frank S. Blair | 1882 – 1886 |
James G. Field | 1877 – 1882 |
Raleigh T. Daniel | 1874 – 1877 |
James C. Taylor | 1870 – 1874 |
Charles Whittlesey | 1869 – 1870 |
Thomas Russell Bowden | 1865 – 1869 |
John Randolph Tucker | 1857 – 1865 |
Willis P. Bocock | 1852 – 1857 |
Sidney S. Baxter | 1834 – 1852 |
John Robertson | 1819 – 1834 |
Rhilip Norborne Nicholas | 1799 – 1819 |
Robert Brooke | 1796 – 1799 |
James Innes | 1786 – 1796 |
Edmond Randolph | 1776 – 1786 |