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Pennsylvania Attorney General

Current State AG
Dave Sunday (R)
Political Party
Republican
Assumed Office

2025

From 2018 to 2024, Sunday served as York County District Attorney, where he led efforts to increase public safety, promote community well-being, and fight against violence and illegal drugs. A Navy veteran, in 2013 he was appointed to the United States Department of Justice as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, where he assisted in prosecuting gang, illegal gun, and drug cases in federal court. After graduation from law school, he worked as law clerk for the...

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From 2018 to 2024, Sunday served as York County District Attorney, where he led efforts to increase public safety, promote community well-being, and fight against violence and illegal drugs. A Navy veteran, in 2013 he was appointed to the United States Department of Justice as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, where he assisted in prosecuting gang, illegal gun, and drug cases in federal court. After graduation from law school, he worked as law clerk for the Honorable Joseph C. Adams, former President Judge of the York County Court of Common Pleas.

Sunday’s 2024 campaign for state attorney general focused on greater public safety and combatting the opioid epidemic. He stated his intent to use the attorney general’s office as a bully pulpit between prosecutors across the state.

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The AG is an elected position in Pennsylvania.

  • Next Election:November 7, 2028
  • Election Process:Elected
  • Term/Limit:4 years / 2 consecutive terms


Latest Pennsylvania Attorney General News & Insights

AG Coalition Challenging Nexstar-TEGNA Merger Goes Bipartisan

Five more states—Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Vermont—joined California AG Rob Bonta’s lawsuit challenging Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion acquisition of TEGNA, making the coalition bipartisan.

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AGs Demand xAI Do More to Stop Grok Deepfakes

A bipartisan coalition of 35 AGs, co-led by Connecticut AG William Tong, North Carolina AG Jeff Jackson, Pennsylvania AG Dave Sunday, and Utah AG Derek Brown, sent a letter to xAI, urging the company to take additional steps to prevent its AI chatbot, Grok, from generating and disseminating AI-created nonconsensual intimate images (NCII), including content…

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