Texas Attorney General

Current State AG: Ken Paxton (R)
Political Party: Republican
Assumed Office: 2015

Ken Paxton was elected as attorney general in 2014 and was reelected in 2018 and 2022. AG Paxton previously was elected to the Texas House of Representatives from 2003-2013 and the Texas State Senate from 2013-2015. Previously, AG Paxton worked as an attorney in private practice and as in-house legal counsel with J.C. Penney.

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The AG is an elected position in Texas.

Next Election:November 3, 2026
Election Process:Elected
Term/Limit:4 years / none

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News June 20, 2024

GOP AGs Seek to Black Out FERC’s Electrical Transmission & Planning Rule

A group of 19 Republican AGs filed a Rehearing Request to FERC asking it to reconsider its Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation Final Rule, which requires transmission providers to conduct long-term regional planning.

News June 20, 2024

Senior Texas and West Virginia AGs’ Office Staff Assume New Government Roles

Texas Deputy First Assistant Attorney General Judge Grant Dorfman has been appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to serve as a judge on Texas’s newly established Eleventh Business Court Division in Houston. West Virginia Solicitor General Lindsay See was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

News June 6, 2024

Texas AG Gearing Up for “Aggressive” Enforcement as New Privacy Law Takes Effect July 1

Texas AG Ken Paxton has launched an initiative focused on “aggressive enforcement of Texas privacy laws,” and tasked a large team within the office’s Consumer Protection Division with ramping up enforcement of the state’s Data Privacy and Security Act (DPSA), Identify Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, Data Broker Law, and Biometric Identifier Act, as well…

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