Andrea Campbell

Andrea Campbell
Official portrait, 2023
45th Attorney General of Massachusetts
Incumbent
Assumed office January 18, 2023
Governor	Maura Healey
Preceded by	Maura Healey
President of the Boston City Council
In office January 2018 – January 2020
Preceded by	Michelle Wu
Succeeded by	Kim Janey
Member of the Boston City Council from the 4th district
In office January 4, 2016 – January 3, 2022
Preceded by	Charles Yancey
Succeeded by	Brian Worrell
Personal details
Born	(1982-06-11) June 11, 1982 (age 42) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Matthew Scheier
Children	2
Education	Princeton University (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (JD)
Website	Campaign website

Andrea Joy Campbell is an American lawyer and politician who is serving as the attorney general of Massachusetts. Campbell is a former member of the Boston City Council. On the city council, she represented District 4, which includes parts of Boston's Dorchester, Mattapan, Jamaica Plain, and Roslindale neighborhoods. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the council in November 2015 and assumed office in January 2016. She served as president of the council from January 2018 until January 2020.^[1] Campbell unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Boston in 2021, placing third in the nonpartisan primary election behind Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu, the latter of whom would go on to win the general election.

In 2022, Campbell announced her candidacy in that year's election for attorney general of Massachusetts. Campbell was the first black woman to qualify for ballot access for statewide office in Massachusetts. Winning the Democratic Party's nomination with a sizable victory in the Democratic primary, Campbell won the general election by a large margin. In January 2023, she was sworn in as attorney general, becoming the first black woman to hold the office and only the second black person to hold it, preceded only by Edward Brooke.