Fanon Rucker
November 2020 Update: incumbent Joseph Deters was re-elected for a seventh term as Hamilton County Prosecutor. Deters’s current term ends in January 2025. *** As Hamilton County’s longest serving Prosecuting Attorney, Joseph Deters has failed to implement crucial reforms to fix our justice system. Deters, a Republican, has sent more people to death row than […]
Monique Worrell
Update: Orange and Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell won the 2020 general election with nearly 67% of the vote. She assumed office on January 5, 2021, and her current term ends on January 7, 2025. *** Monique Worrell (D) is a former public defender, law professor, and assistant state attorney for Orange and Osceola counties. […]
Eric Rinehart
Update: Lake County DA Eric Rinehart won the 2020 general election with nearly 52% of the vote. *** State Attorneys have an enormous impact on Black communities. They have the power to decide who gets prosecuted and the severity of each prosecution. Under current State Attorney Mike Nerheim, police misconduct and wrongful convictions have sent […]
Kim Foxx
Update: Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx was re-elected with 54% of the vote 2020 general election vote. Foxx assumed office on December 1, 2016, and her current term ends on December 1, 2024. *** In 2016, Cook County ousted Anita Alvarez from her seat as State’s Attorney, ending nearly a decade of corruption. As […]
Kim Gardner
Update: St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner was re-elected to a second term with 74% of the vote 2020 general election vote. Gardner assumed office in 2017. Gardner’s current term ends on January 1, 2025. *** In 2016, St. Louis voters elected Kim Gardner to advance a progressive agenda focused on reforming and rebuilding […]
Patsy Austin-Gatson
Update: Gwinnett County DA Patsy Austin-Gatson won the 2020 general election becoming the first Black woman to be elected Gwinnett District Attorney. *** For 28 years current District Attorney Danny Porter (R) has opposed commonsense, effective reforms to our criminal justice system. Instead, Porter has fueled mass incarceration by resisting bail reform, routinely seeking the […]
Shalena Cook Jones
Update: Chatham County DA Shalena Cook Jones won the 2020 special election with nearly 53% of the vote. She is the second woman to hold the DA office and the first Black woman. *** Shalena Cook Jones (D) is an experienced attorney and former prosecutor with Chatham County’s District Attorney office. She is running on […]