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ABOUT THE ATTOR­NEY GENERAL

Ken Paxton is the 51st Attorney General of Texas. He was elected on November 4,
2014, and sworn into office on January 5, 2015. He was re-elected to a second
term in 2018 and a third term in 2022.

As the state’s top law enforcement officer, Attorney General Paxton leads more
than 4,000 employees in 38 divisions and 117 offices around Texas. That includes
nearly 750 attorneys, who handle more than 30,000 cases annually – enforcing
child support orders, protecting Texans against consumer fraud, enforcing open
government laws, providing legal advice to state officials, and representing the
state of Texas in court, among other things.

His first major initiative as attorney general was the formation of a special
unit dedicated to combating human trafficking in Texas. During its first year of
existence, the Human Trafficking and Transnational Organized Crime section
helped arrest the chief executive officer of Backpage.com and coordinated to
facilitate the permanent shut down of Backpage.com, the largest online
sex-trafficking marketplace in the United States.

Under Attorney General Paxton’s leadership, the agency’s Child Support Division
is recognized as the most successful and cost-effective program in the nation.
In fiscal year 2020, the division collected more than $4.8 billion for Texas
families – an unprecedented amount in one year by any state. This success
helped Texas taxpayers avoid over $1 billion in additional public assistance
costs.

Attorney General Paxton is focused on protecting Texans and upholding Texas laws
and the Constitution. Fighting federal overreach, he filed 27 lawsuits against
the Obama administration during a two-year stretch, of which six were heard in
the U.S. Supreme Court. He's obtained an injunction or other winning ruling in
more than 75 percent of the cases he's brought against the federal government. 

During his tenure in office, Attorney General Paxton has won major cases for
Texas on immigration, school rights, Environmental Protection Agency rules and
religious freedom. Stopping the EPA's “Waters of the United States” rule
preserved Texans' ability to regulate their own natural resources, including
ponds, puddles and streams on private property. Businesses were protected and
jobs preserved in Texas when Attorney General Paxton prevailed against the
Department of Labor’s “Overtime” rule. Attorney General Paxton led a successful
multistate coalition against the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which would have
increased consumer prices for electricity and weakened the power grid in Texas.
Most recently, a U.S. District Court agreed with his 20-state coalition lawsuit
holding Obamacare unconstitutional. His office has also obtained a record number
of successful election fraud convictions with over 500 offenses pending
prosecution and almost 400 ongoing investigations.

Attorney General Paxton led several nationwide lawsuits against deceptive opioid
marketing, advertisements and programs while ensuring that recovered funds were
properly directed to aid Texans suffering from opioid abuse and misuse and their
families. Amidst ongoing lawsuits against Purdue Pharma and Johnson & Johnson,
additional litigation has already resulted in a $1.6 billion settlement with
Mallinckrodt, the largest generic opioid manufacturer in the world, and a $38.4
million settlement with McKinsey, a leading opioid marketing consultant that
provided consulting services to OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma for more than 15
years. Attorney General Paxton has also been aggressive in his approach to
protecting the health and safety of Texans from illegal synthetic drugs. His
office has filed more than a dozen lawsuits to block the sale of synthetic
cannabinoids (known as Kush and Spice) in Texas. The agency’s website provides
Texans with the information and resources they need to become fully informed
about the dangers of synthetic drugs and the opioid painkiller abuse crisis.

Attorney General Paxton graduated from Baylor University, where he served as
student body president, earning a B.A. in psychology and an M.B.A.  After
receiving a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, he worked
as an attorney at Strasburger & Price, LLP, in-house counsel for J.C. Penney
Company, and headed up his own law firm for 14 years in McKinney.

First elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2002, Attorney General
Paxton represented House District 70 for 10 years, one of the fastest-growing
regions in the state. In 2012, he was elected to the Texas state Senate,
representing Senate District 8 in Collin and Dallas counties.

He met his wife Angela while they were students at Baylor. She is the state
Senator for  District 8 and a former teacher and guidance counselor at Legacy
Christian Academy in Frisco. The Paxtons have four children: Tucker, Abby,
Mattie and Katie, and they welcomed their first grandchild in 2020 and their
second in 2022. They are members of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano.

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DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Office of Attorney General champions liberty and justice for Texas.


COMPACT WITH TEXANS

Attorney General Ken Paxton is the State of Texas’s chief legal officer.


OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL INITIATIVES

We identify the greatest threats to Texas — and we take action to defeat them.
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DIVISIONS OF THE OFFICE

The main responsibilities of the Office of the Attorney General are defending
the State of Texas and its duly elected laws by providing legal representation
to the State, serving the children of Texas through the enforcement of the
state’s child support laws, securing justice for Texans, protecting Texans from
waste, fraud, and abuse, and safeguarding the freedoms of Texans as guaranteed
by the United States and Texas constitutions.


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