Attorney General — California
California Attorney General · educational cover · justice civic · American Future Type
What this office is
The Attorney General of California is the state’s lawyer. One office. The whole state. The term is four years. The next regular election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Confirm the clock, and the Attorney General of record, on official California sites. A term limit is not a crown for the next name.
This is not the Governor. The Governor file lives at Governor of California. This is not a United States Attorney. This is not a county district attorney. This office is the lawyer for California.
Sacramento is the capital. Los Angeles is not the capital. San Francisco is not the capital. Fifty-eight counties hire the same Attorney General — Valley, Sierra, harbor, and north coast included.
This page is Side One. For this cycle, use the election twin.
Confirm the Attorney General of record on oag.ca.gov.
How the job fits this community
The inbox is a state inbox: a capital file from Sacramento that is not a Los Angeles skyline, a Valley consumer file, a Sierra county that never makes the national news, a harbor file, and a public-integrity file that is not a mayor’s desk.
Staff who only know Los Angeles, or only know San Francisco as the whole state, are not doing the job. Oregon is a different state. Nevada is a different state. Arizona is a different state. The Valley remains California.
What the job entails
- Represent the state. Not a legislator. Not the Governor.
- Opinions where California law actually gives them.
- Civil and criminal matters the constitution and statutes actually assign — not every county case.
- Consumer and public-integrity files that are state files.
- Two homes. Sacramento for the job. The rest of the state for the people who hired the office.
Place snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: California · Office: Attorney General
- Next regular election: 3 November 2026
- Always verify on oag.ca.gov
What this is not
- Not the Governor. Not a U.S. Attorney. Not a county DA.
- Not a United States Senator. California has no Class II and no 2026 Senate race.
- Not the Mayor of Sacramento, Los Angeles, or San Francisco.
- Not Oregon. Not Nevada. Not Arizona.
- Not a campaign flyer.
Official doors
- Office of the Attorney General
- California Secretary of State — Elections
- Office of the Attorney General of California