This is a list of people who have held the role of

district attorney In the United States, a district attorney (DA), county attorney, state's attorney, prosecuting attorney, commonwealth's attorney, or state attorney is the chief prosecutor and/or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a l ...

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

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Frank M. Angellotti Frank Marion Angellotti (September 4, 1861 – May 23, 1932), was an American attorney who served as the 17th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court from January 5, 1915 to November 1921, and as an associate justice from December 11, 1 ...

Diana Becton Diana Becton, also known as Diana Becton Smith (born August 16, 1951) is a former trial judge and is currently both the first woman and first African American to be elected district attorney in the history of Contra Costa County in California. ...

* Isaac S. Belcher * Theodore Arlington Bell * David Berger (attorney) *

Chesa Boudin Chesa Boudin (, ; born August 21, 1980) is an American lawyer who served as the 29th San Francisco District Attorney's Office, District Attorney of San Francisco from January 8, 2020 to July 8, 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Party (United ...

Matthew Brady (lawyer) Matthew A. Brady was a district attorney in San Francisco from 1919 through 1943. Brady defeated previous district attorney Charles Fickert, who was responsible for the conviction of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings in the Preparedness Day bomb ...

Robert S. Brewer Jr. Robert Shelden Brewer Jr. (born April 30, 1946) is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Southern District of California from 2019 to 2021. Bi ...

* Pat Brown *

Vincent Bugliosi Vincent T. Bugliosi Jr. (; August 18, 1934 – June 6, 2015) was an American prosecutor and author who served as Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office between 1964 and 1972. He became best known for s ...

* Joseph P. Busch *

Lewis Francis Byington Lewis Francis Byington (May 24, 1868 – May 7, 1943) was an American lawyer, author, and Democratic politician who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1898–1900) and as District Attorney of San Francisco (1900–1905).''San Fr ...

John Isaiah Caldwell John Isaiah Caldwell (born c. 1828) was an American attorney, miner, businessman, and school trustee. Career Caldwell was a native of Champaign County, Ohio. He received his legal education in his native state, being a student under Judge John A. ...

Anthony Caminetti Anthony Caminetti (July 30, 1854 – November 17, 1923) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a United States representative from California from 1891 to 1895. Biography Born in Jackson, California, Caminetti was the son o ...

Alfred Chapman Alfred Beck Chapman (September 6, 1829 – January 16, 1915) was a Los Angeles real estate attorney and investor. He was one of the founders of the city of Orange, California. Personal Chapman was born on September 6, 1829, in Greensboro, Alab ...

* Maxine M. Chesney * Steve Cooley *

Carol Corrigan Carol Ann Corrigan (born August 16, 1948) is an associate justice of the California Supreme Court. Background Corrigan, the daughter of a newspaperman and a homemaker, grew up in the San Joaquin Valley city of Stockton, California. She graduat ...

* Christopher Cottle *

John J. De Haven John Jefferson De Haven (also given as de Haven and DeHaven) (March 12, 1845 – January 26, 1913) was a United States representative from California, an associate justice of the California Supreme Court and a United States district judge of the ...

* Kimball H. Dimmick * John F. Dockweiler *

Ezra Drown Ezra Drown was an attorney who escaped a shipwreck to become the district attorney of Los Angeles County, California, in 1857–59 and 1861–63 and a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of the city of Los Angeles, in 1 ...

Bonnie Dumanis Bonnie Michelle Dumanis (born December 16, 1951) was the District Attorney of San Diego County, California. She held the office 2003 to 2017. Dumanis is a Republican, though the office she held was officially nonpartisan. She was the first openly ...

Clair Engle Clair Engle (September 21, 1911July 30, 1964) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from California from 1959 until his death in 1964. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for participating in the vo ...

John Morton Eshleman John Morton Eshleman (June 14, 1876 – February 28, 1916) was an American lawyer and politician from California. He was Lieutenant Governor of California from 1915 to 1916. A native of the Midwest, Eshleman was born in Villa Ridge, Illin ...

Charles Fickert Charles Marron Fickert (February 23, 1873 – October 19, 1937) was American lawyer, politician, and college football player and coach. He was the district attorney of San Francisco from 1909 until 1920, best known for prosecuting Thomas Mooney a ...

Buron Fitts Buron Rogers Fitts (March 22, 1895 – March 29, 1973) was the 29th lieutenant governor of California, from 1927 to 1928, and Los Angeles County district attorney thereafter until 1940. Early life Born in Belcherville, Texas, Fitts received h ...

* Birgit Fladager *

Edwin Alexander Forbes Edwin Alexander Forbes (1860–1915), who served as the Adjutant General of California from 4 January 1911 to 18 June 1915, is known as the Father of the California Cadet Corps. During his term of office he originated the idea of providing milit ...

Tirey L. Ford Tirey Lafayette Ford (December 29, 1857 – June 26, 1928) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a California State Senator and the 18th Attorney-General of California. He acted as General Counsel for the United Railroa ...

* Charles N. Fox *

John D. Fredericks John Donnan Fredericks (September 10, 1869 – August 26, 1945) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from California California is a state in the Western United States, located along t ...

Gil Garcetti Gilbert Salvador Iberri Garcetti (born August 5, 1941) is an American politician and lawyer. He served as Los Angeles County's 40th district attorney for two terms, from 1992 until November 7, 2000. He is the father of the 42nd mayor of the ci ...

George Gascón George Gascón (born March 12, 1954) is an American attorney and former police officer who is the district attorney of Los Angeles County. A member of the Democratic Party and a former Republican, Gascón served as the district attorney of San ...

Jeff Gorell Jeffrey Frederick Gorell (born November 6, 1970), a Republican politician from California, is currently a member of the Ventura County Board of Supervisors, having been elected to the County Board, 2nd District, in 2022. In 2010, Gorell was elec ...

* Kimberly Guilfoyle * Terence Hallinan * Kamala Harris *

Henry T. Hazard Henry T. Hazard (July 31, 1844 – August 7, 1921) was a California pioneer who became a land developer, a patent attorney and mayor of the city of Los Angeles. He gives his name to Hazard Park in Los Angeles. Personal Early Hazard was born o ...

* Frank Hereford *

Volney Howard Volney Erskine Howard (October 22, 1809 – May 14, 1889) was an American lawyer, statesman, and jurist. Career Volney Erskine Howard was born in Oxford County, Maine on October 22, 1809, to Richard Howard, a prosperous farmer. At the age of ...

William Jefferson Hunsaker William Jefferson Hunsaker (1855–1933) was an American lawyer and politician from San Diego and later Los Angeles, California. Hunsaker was the San Diego County District Attorney from 1882 to 1884, 4th Mayor of San Diego from 1887 to 1888 and ...

* Ed Jagels * Hiram Johnson * Edward J. C. Kewen * Asa Keyes *

Jackie Lacey Jacquelyn Phillips Lacey (born February 27, 1957) is an American politician who served as the District Attorney of Los Angeles County from December 3, 2012 to December 7, 2020. Lacey is the first woman, and first African-American, to serve as LA ...

* William Langdon *

James Harvey Logan James Harvey Logan (December 8, 1841 - July 16, 1928) was a judge in Santa Cruz, California, and an amateur botanist credited with the 1881 creation of the loganberry, a cross between the raspberry and the blackberry. He was District Attorney i ...

* Thomas C. Lynch * Spencer M. Marsh *

James McLachlan (American politician) James McLachlan (August 1, 1852 – November 21, 1940) was an American educator and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from California. Early life On August 1, 1852, McLachlan was born in Argyllshire, Scotland. McLachla ...

* John Miner (attorney) *

Robert F. Morrison Robert Francis Morrison (August 16, 1826 – March 2, 1887) was the 13th Chief Justice of California from November 1879 to March 2, 1887, when he died in office. Biography Morrison was born on August 16, 1826, in Kaskaskia, Illinois. He serve ...

Arthur Ohnimus Arthur Allen Ohnimus (1893–1965) was the longest serving Assembly Chief Clerk in California history (1923–1963). He was also the first Chief Administrative Officer of the Assembly Rules Committee (1957–1963). Ohnimus served under 8 Repu ...

Nancy O'Malley Nancy O'Malley was the District Attorney for Alameda County, California. Biography O'Malley was appointed as DA for Alameda County in 2009 by the board of supervisors when her predecessor retired. She ran unopposed in 2010 and 2014. In Novem ...

Tom Orloff Thomas Jensen Orloff is an American lawyer. He is the former district attorney for Alameda County, California. Orloff began work in the DA's office after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley for law in 1970, trying 25 murder ca ...

Rod Pacheco Rodric Anthony Pacheco (born May 7, 1958), more commonly known as Rod Pacheco, is an American politician. He served in the Riverside County District Attorney's Office as a Deputy District Attorney, Chief Deputy District Attorney, Assistant Dist ...

George S. Patton (attorney) George Smith Patton (September 30, 1856 – June 10, 1927) was an American attorney, businessman and politician who served as Los Angeles County District Attorney and the first mayor of San Marino, California. Patton was the son of Susan Thor ...

* Mark Peterson (district attorney) *

Robert Philibosian Robert Harry Philibosian (born September 29, 1940) is an American politician. He was appointed Los Angeles County District Attorney in 1981 when his predecessor John Van de Kamp was elected Attorney General of California. Philibosian served as ...

* Pierre-Richard Prosper *

Tony Rackauckas Anthony Joseph Rackauckas Jr. (born March 18, 1943) is a former District Attorney of Orange County, California and a former Superior Court judge. After losing his reelection bid for a sixth term as Orange County DA in 2018, Rackauckas has come ...

John E. Raker John Edward Raker (February 22, 1863 – January 22, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic Party Congressional representative for California, serving eight terms from 1911 to 1926. Life He was born near Knoxv ...

Michael A. Ramos Michael Anthony "Mike" Ramos (born August 5, 1957) is an American attorney. He was the 35th district attorney of San Bernardino County, California. He was first elected in 2002 and is the first Hispanic and Latino Americans, Hispanic district atto ...

Ira Reiner Ira Kenneth Reiner (born February 15, 1936) is an American attorney and politician who served as the Los Angeles City Attorney from 1981 to 1984 and Los Angeles County District Attorney from 1984 to 1992. The McMartin preschool trial occurred dur ...

* Augustus Rhodes *

Silas Sanderson Silas Woodruff Sanderson (April 16, 1824 – June 24, 1886) was the seventh Chief Justice of California. Biography Born in Sandgate, Vermont, Sanderson attended Burr Seminary, Williams College, and Union College, graduating from the last in ...

Aaron A. Sargent Aaron Augustus Sargent (September 28, 1827 – August 14, 1887) was an American journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat. In 1878, Sargent historically introduced what would later become the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Con ...

* Emmett Seawell *

Gerald Shea (district attorney) Gerald Shea is an American attorney who served as District Attorney for San Luis Obispo County, California from 1998 to 2013. Born in the San Diego County, California, area, Shea received his BA in English from San Diego State University in 1971. ...

* Richard M. Sims Jr. *

Arlo Smith Arlo Smith is a former District Attorney of San Francisco, California. He served from 1980 to 1996, and was defeated in November 1995 by Terence Hallinan. Smith lost to Dan Lungren Daniel Edward Lungren (born September 22, 1946) is an American ...

Thomas W. Sneddon Jr. Thomas William Sneddon Jr. (May 26, 1941 – November 1, 2014) was the district attorney of Santa Barbara County, California. He had more than two decades of experience as a District Attorney, and more than three decades of experience as a pro ...

Thomas W. Sutherland Thomas W. Sutherland (c. 1817 – February 2, 1859) was an American lawyer and pioneer settler of Wisconsin and California. He was the first Village President of Madison, Wisconsin, was United States Attorney for Wisconsin for several years i ...

Cameron E. Thom Cameron Erskine Thom (June 20, 1825 – February 2, 1915) was a lawyer, a legislator, a Confederate officer in the Civil War and the 16th mayor of Los Angeles, California, from 1882 to 1884. Personal Thom was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, ...

William W. Upton William W. Upton (July 11, 1817 – January 23, 1896) was an American jurist and politician. He served as Oregon’s 8th Chief Justice of the state’s highest court. William Upton served from 1867 until 1874 on the Oregon Supreme Court before a ...

* John Van de Kamp *

Walter Van Dyke Walter Van Dyke (October 8, 1823 – December 25, 1905) was a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge and a justice of the California Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Biography Van Dyke was born on October 8, 1823, in ...

Earl Warren Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969. The Warren Court presided over a major shift in American constitution ...

Stanley Weisberg Stanley Martin Weisberg (born October 12, 1943, in Los Angeles County, California) is a former prosecutor and Los Angeles County Superior Court judge known for presiding over the trials of the police officers charged with the beating of Rodney Kin ...

Tony West (attorney) Derek Anthony West (born August 12, 1965) is an American attorney and former government official, and the current Senior Vice President and chief legal officer of Uber. Before Uber, West was United States Associate Attorney General, Associate Atto ...

Stephen M. White Stephen Mallory White (January 19, 1853February 21, 1901) was an American attorney and politician from California. A Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, he was most notable for his service as a United States Senate, U.S. Senator from 189 ...

Steve White (judge) Stephen W. "Steve" White (born April 13, 1949 in Sacramento, California) is a Judge of the Sacramento County Superior Court. He served as Presiding Judge for 2010 and 2011. He was appointed to the bench in 2003 by Governor Gray Davis. Between 1999 ...

Thomas L. Woolwine Thomas Lee Woolwine (October 31, 1874 – July 8, 1925) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 27th Los Angeles County District Attorney, District Attorney of Los Angeles County between 1915 and 1923. He began his career as a Depu ...

Evelle J. Younger Evelle Jansen Younger (June 19, 1918 – May 4, 1989) was an American lawyer who served as the California Attorney General from 1971 to 1979. Prior to his career as Attorney General, he served as the district attorney in Los Angeles where he ove ...

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