Attorney General of Maryland
The Attorney General of the State of Maryland is the chief legal officer of the State of Maryland in the United States and is elected by the people every four years with no term limits. To run for the office a person must be a citizen of and qualified voter in Maryland and must have lived and practiced law in the state for at least ten years.
The Attorney General has general charge, supervision and direction of the legal business of the State. He or she is the legal advisor and representative of the Governor, the General Assembly, the Judiciary, and the major departments, various boards, commissions, officials and institutions of State Government. The Office further represents the State in all cases pending in the Appellate Courts of the State, and in the United States Supreme Court and lower Federal Courts.
As of 2015, the attorney general is Democrat Brian Frosh.
Chronological list of Attorneys General of Maryland
| Name | From | To | Party | Law school graduated from |
| James Tilghman | 1777 | 1778 | - | |
| Luther Martin | 1778 | 1805 | - | |
| William Pinkney | 1805 | 1806 | Democratic-Republican | - |
| John Thomson Mason | 1806 | 1806 | - | |
| John Johnson, Sr. | 1806 | 1811 | - | |
| John Montgomery | 1811 | 1818 | Democratic-Republican | - |
| Luther Martin | 1818 | 1822 | - | |
| Thomas Beale Dorsey | 1822 | 1824 | Democratic-Republican | - |
| Thomas Kell | 1824 | 1827 | - | |
| Roger B. Taney | 1827 | 1831 | Democrat | - |
| Josiah Bayly | 1831 | 1846 | - | |
| George R. Richardson | 1846 | 1851 | - | |
| Robert J. Brent | 1851 | 1851 | Whig | - |
| Alexander Randall | 1864 | 1867 | Whig | - |
| Isaac Dashiell Jones | 1867 | 1871 | Whig | - |
| Andrew K. Syester | 1871 | 1875 | Whig | - |
| Charles J. M. Gwinn | 1875 | 1883 | Democrat | - |
| Charles Boyle Roberts | 1883 | 1887 | Democrat | - |
| William Pinkney Whyte | 1887 | 1891 | Democrat | Harvard Law School |
| John Prentiss Poe | 1891 | 1895 | Democrat | - |
| Harry M. Clabaugh | 1895 | 1899 | Republican | University of Maryland School of Law |
| George Riggs Gaither, Jr. | 1899 | 1899 | Republican | - |
| Isidor Rayner | 1899 | 1903 | Democrat | - |
| William Shepard Bryan, Jr. | 1903 | 1907 | Democrat | - |
| Isaac Lobe Straus | 1907 | 1911 | Democrat | - |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1911 | 1915 | Democrat | University of Maryland School of Law |
| Albert C. Ritchie | 1915 | 1919 | Democrat | University of Maryland School of Law |
| Ogle Marbury | 1918 | 1919 | Democrat | University of Maryland School of Law |
| Alexander Armstrong | 1919 | 1923 | Republican | - |
| Thomas H. Robinson | 1923 | 1930 | Democrat | - |
| William Preston Lane, Jr. | 1930 | 1934 | Democrat | University of Virginia School of Law |
| Herbert R. O'Conor | 1934 | 1938 | Democrat | University of Maryland School of Law |
| William C. Walsh | 1938 | 1945 | Democrat | Catholic University School of Law |
| William Curran | 1945 | 1946 | Democrat | - |
| Hall Hammond | 1946 | 1952 | Democrat | University of Maryland School of Law |
| Edward D. E. Rollins | 1952 | 1954 | Republican | - |
| C. Ferdinand Sybert | 1954 | 1961 | Democrat | - |
| Thomas B. Finan | 1961 | 1966 | Democrat | - |
| Robert C. Murphy | 1966 | 1966 | Democrat | University of Maryland School of Law |
| Francis B. Burch | 1966 | 1978 | Democrat | Yale Law School |
| Jon F. Oster | 1979 | 1979 | - | |
| George A. Nilson | 1979 | 1979 | - | |
| Stephen H. Sachs | 1979 | 1987 | Democrat | Yale Law School |
| J. Joseph Curran, Jr. | 1987 | 2007 | Democrat | University of Baltimore School of Law |
| Doug Gansler | 2007 | 2015 | Democrat | University of Virginia School of Law |
| Brian Frosh | 2015 | Democrat | Columbia Law School |