Keith Ellison

Candidate for Attorney General

Keith Ellison has been Minnesota's attorney general since January 2019. Before that he represented Minnesota's 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House from 2007 to 2019, serving on the Financial Services Committee, founding the Congressional Antitrust Caucus and the Congressional Consumer Justice Caucus, and co-chairing the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He served four years in the Minnesota House before Congress. A civil-rights and defense attorney for 16 years, he spent five of them as executive director of the Legal Rights Center. He earned his law degree at the University of Minnesota in 1990. His office describes him as the first African American and first Muslim American elected to statewide office in Minnesota.

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