JOSH SHAPIRO
Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Josh Shapiro was elected to serve as Pennsylvania’s Attorney General in November 2016, and was sworn into office in January 2017. He is the sixth person elected to serve as the Commonwealth’s chief law enforcement officer.
Attorney General Shapiro was previously a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 153rd legislative district from 2005 to 2012. In 2012, he was elected to the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners. As chairman of that board, Shapiro led an historic fiscal turnaround, helped the first LGBT couples in Pennsylvania marry, protected voting rights and fired Wall Street money managers to protect pensions and save retirees millions.
Throughout his career as a public servant, the causes Shapiro has championed include protecting seniors, veterans, small businesses and consumers from scams and fraud; implementing a comprehensive integrity agenda to ensure people from across the Commonwealth are heard and have faith in the justice system; and directing an aggressive fight against the heroin and opioid epidemic, including treatment for those suffering from addiction.
As the Chairman of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, his work on behalf of victims and for criminal justice reform earned him the trust of law enforcement leaders from across the ideological spectrum.
Josh Shapiro was in private practice for over a decade and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Rochester and earned his law degree at night from Georgetown University Law Center. He was raised in Montgomery County, where he met his wife, Lori, and where they are raising their four children.