Keith Ellison has served as Minnesota Attorney General since 2019. As the People’s Lawyer, Attorney General Ellison’s job is to help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity, safety, and respect. His life’s work is oriented around the principles that everybody counts and everybody matters, and that no one is outside our circle of compassion.

As Minnesota’s chief legal officer, Ellison leads the Attorney General’s Office in an expansive body of work that includes a wide variety of consumer-protection work and litigation, contributing to public safety, and representing more than 100 State of Minnesota agencies, boards, and commissions. He has brought landmark consumer-protection litigation against Big Oil, Big Tobacco, the gun lobby, opioid companies, and other special interests that have harmed Minnesotans.

Attorney General Ellison is currently helping to lead the national legal fight against Donald Trump’s illegal and unconstitutional executive orders and other actions. He has filed or intervened in more than 20 lawsuits against the administration in defense of democracy and the rule of law and against Trump attacks on birthright citizenship, public health, a variety of vital federal agencies, transgender children, voting rights, and much more. To date, he and his fellow Democratic attorneys general have not lost a case.

Attorney General Ellison was the lead prosecutor of the May 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. He led the team that successfully convicted four former police officers of second-degree murder or second-degree manslaughter, demonstrating that no one is above the law, and no one is beneath it. He is a national thought leader in the effort to advance constitutional policing that builds community trust and helps bring about true public safety for all people and communities.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Attorney General Ellison’s office enforced executive orders barring evictions and price-gouging and successfully defended the constitutionality of pandemic-related executive orders in court. He has also led substantive policy initiatives on lowering the cost of pharmaceutical drugs, reducing deadly-force encounters between law enforcement and civilians, and advancing women’s economic security.

Under Keith Ellison’s leadership, the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office has been named a Top Minnesota Workplace and a Top USA Workplace for five consecutive years—the first time the Office has won those recognitions.

From 2007 to 2019, Ellison served in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he championed consumer, worker, environmental, and civil- and human-rights protections for all. Among his accomplishments are passing provisions to protect credit-card holders from abusive practices and the rights of renters and tenants. While in Congress, he founded the Congressional Antitrust and Consumer Justice Caucuses, and served as co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which he helped build to more than 100 members. In 2017, he was a candidate for DNC chair.

Before entering Congress, Attorney General Ellison served in the Minnesota House of Representatives for four years and practiced law as a criminal-defense and civil-rights attorney for 16 years.