Kris Mayes

Kris Mayes is the 27th attorney general for Arizona, who has distinguished herself as a fighter for the people in a lifetime of public service. She served a senior role in Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano’s administration and was later elected to the Arizona Corporation Commission, where she served as chair. During Mayes’s time on the Arizona Corporation Commission, her leadership helped create tens of thousands of high-paying jobs, saved Arizona consumers billions of dollars, and required utilities to produce more clean and efficient energy — including solar and wind. She also worked to preserve Arizona’s water resources. Prior to her election as Attorney General, Mayes worked as a professor at Arizona State University’s School of Global Sustainability, taught a course on energy law for the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU, and was a reporter at The Arizona Republic. She studied political science and journalism at Arizona State University. She later earned a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University, as well as her law degree from ASU, where she graduated magna cum laude.