Colorado Attorney General

Attorney General of Colorado
File:AG Phil Weiser.jpg Incumbent Phil Weiser since January 8, 2019
Colorado Department of Law
Constituting instrument	Colorado Constitution
Website	www.coag.gov

The Attorney General of the State of Colorado is the chief legal officer for the U.S. State of Colorado and the head of the Colorado Department of Law, a principal department of the Colorado state government. It is an elected position with a four-year term, and follows the same schedule as election of the governor. The incumbent Colorado Attorney General is Democrat Phil Weiser, who was elected in November 2018 to a four-year term that began on January 8, 2019.

The Department of Law has seven sections: Appellate, Natural Resources and Environmental, Consumer Protection, State Services, Civil Litigation and Employment Law, Criminal Justice, Revenue & Utilities, and Business & Licensing.

Attorneys general of the Territory of Colorado

#	Attorney General	Party	Term of Service
1	James E. Dalliba	Republican	1861–1862
2	Samuel E. Brown	Republican	1862–1865
3	George W. Chamberlain	Republican	1865–1869
4	Henry C. Thatcher	Republican	1869–1873

From 1873 to 1877 the Attorney General position was filled by the U.S. Attorney due to lack of funding by the territorial government. In 1876 Colorado was admitted to the Union as a State.

Attorneys general of the State of Colorado

#	Image	Attorney General	Party	Term of Service
1	File:Archibald J. Sampson, around 1870s (cropped).jpg	A. J. Sampson	Republican	1877–1878
2		Charles W. Wright	Republican	1879–1880
3		Charles H. Toll	Republican	1881–1882
4		David F. Urmy	Republican	1883–1884
5		Theodore H. Thomas	Republican	1885–1886
6		Alvin Marsh	Republican	1887–1888
7		Samuel W. Jones	Republican	1889–1890
8		Joseph H. Maupin	Democratic	1891–1892
9		Eugene Engley	People's Party	1893–1894
10	File:Byron L. Carr, Colorado attorney general, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left) - Chas. Bohm, Denver, Col LCCN2004682546.jpg	Byron L. Carr	Republican	1895–1898
11		David M. Campbell	Republican	1899–1900
12		Charles C. Post	Republican	1901–1902
13		Nathan C. Miller	Republican	1903–1906
14		William H. Dickson	Republican	1907–1908
15	File:Bench and bar of Colorado - JOHN T. BARNETT.png	John T. Barnett	Democratic	1909–1910
16		Benjamin Griffith	Republican	1911–1912
17		Fred Farrar	Democratic	1913–1916
18	File:Bench and bar of Colorado - LESLIE E. HUBBARD.png	Leslie E. Hubbard	Democratic	1917–1918
19		Victor E. Keyes	Republican	1919–1922
20		Russel W. Fleming	Democratic	1923–1924
21		Wayne C. Williams	Democratic	1924–1925
22		William Boatright	Republican	1925–1928
23		Robert E. Winbourn	Republican	1929–1930
24		John S. Underwood	Republican	1930–1931
25	File:Bench and bar of Colorado - CLARENCE L. IRELAND.png	Clarence L. Ireland	Republican	1931–1932
26		Paul P. Prosser	Democratic	1933–1936
27	File:Byron G. Rogers, 1953.jpg	Byron G. Rogers	Democratic	1936–1940
28		Gail L. Ireland	Republican	1941–1945
29		H. Lawrence Hinkley	Republican	1945–1949
30		John W. Metzger	Democratic	1949–1950
31		Duke W. Dunbar	Republican	1951–1972
32		John P. Moore	Republican	1972–1974
33		J.D. MacFarlane	Democratic	1975–1982
34		Duane Woodard	Republican	1983–1987
			Democratic	1987-1991
35	File:Norton.jpg	Gale Norton	Republican	1991–1999
36	File:Kensalazar.jpg	Ken Salazar	Democratic	1999–2005
37	File:John Suthers US Attorney (cropped).jpg	John Suthers	Republican	2005–2015
38	File:CCoffman1 (cropped).jpg	Cynthia Coffman	Republican	2015–2019
39	File:AG Phil Weiser.jpg	Phil Weiser	Democratic	2019-present

External links

• Colorado Attorney General official website
• Colorado Attorney General articles at Legal Newsline Legal Journal
• News and Commentary at FindLaw
• Colorado Revised Statutes at Law.Justia.com
• U.S. Supreme Court Opinions - "Cases with title containing: State of Colorado" at FindLaw
• Colorado Bar Association
• Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman profile at National Association of Attorneys General
• Press releases by year at Colorado Attorney General's office