NAAG Provides Useful Primer on Attorney General Elections
The National Association of Attorneys General’s NAAGazette offers a concise roundup of 2010 AG election activity – 31 states are holding AG elections – and a general overview of how attorneys general are elected/appointed in the U.S. states and territories:
The Attorney General is popularly elected in 43 states, and is appointed by the governor in five states (Alaska, Hawaii, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Wyoming) and in the five jurisdictions of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. In Maine, the Attorney General is selected by secret ballot of the legislature and in Tennessee by its state supreme court. In the District of Columbia, the mayor chooses the Attorney General.