Attorney General — Ohio
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What this office is
The Attorney General of Ohio 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 Ohio sites. This office has no term limit — that is a clock fact, not a crown.
This is not the Governor. The Governor file lives at Governor of Ohio. This is not a United States Attorney. This is not a county prosecutor. This office is the lawyer for Ohio.
Columbus is the capital, in Franklin County. Cleveland is not the capital. Cincinnati is not the capital. Eighty-eight counties hire the same Attorney General — the lake counties, the river counties, the farm counties, and Appalachian Ohio included.
This page is Side One. For this cycle, use the election twin.
Confirm the Attorney General of record on ohioattorneygeneral.gov.
How the job fits this community
The inbox is a state inbox: a capital file from the Statehouse that is not a Cleveland skyline, a farm-county consumer file that never makes a national broadcast, a lake-effect file, a river-town plant file, and a southern-Ohio public-integrity file that is not I-71 news.
Staff who only know Cleveland, or only know Cincinnati, or only know Columbus as the whole state, are not doing the job. Pennsylvania is a different state. Indiana is a different state. Kentucky is a different state. Michigan is a different state. West Virginia is a different state. The farm counties remain Ohio.
What the job entails
- Represent the state. Not a legislator. Not the Governor.
- Opinions where Ohio law actually gives them.
- Civil and criminal matters the constitution and statutes actually assign — not every county prosecutor’s case.
- Consumer and public-integrity files that are state files.
- Two homes. Columbus for the job. The rest of the state for the people who hired the office.
Place snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: Ohio · Office: Attorney General
- Next regular election: 3 November 2026
- Always verify on ohioattorneygeneral.gov
What this is not
- Not the Governor. Not a U.S. Attorney. Not a county prosecutor.
- Not a United States Senator (Class III has a 2026 special for the remainder; next regular 2028).
- Not the Mayor of Columbus. Not the Mayor of Cleveland. Not the Mayor of Cincinnati.
- Not a campaign flyer.
Official doors
The arena: 2026 election — Attorney General of Ohio