Ramsey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census,the population was 552,352,making it the second-most populous county in Minnesota. Its county seat and largest city is Saint Paul,the state capital and the twin city of Minneapolis. The county was founded in 1849 and is named for Alexander Ramsey,the first governor of the Minnesota Territory.
In the United States,a district attorney (DA),county attorney,state's attorney,prosecuting attorney,commonwealth's attorney,state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor and/or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area,typically a county or a group of counties. The exact name and scope of the office varies by state. Alternative titles for the office include county attorney,solicitor,or county prosecutor. Generally the prosecutor represents the people of the jurisdiction and in many states their authority stems from the state constitution. Unlike similar roles in other common law judicial systems,these are elected,and their holders usually have an allegiance to a political party or faction,rather than being held by a career civil servant appointed on merit in an independent process.
A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the common law adversarial system or the civil law inquisitorial system. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the case in a criminal trial against an individual accused of breaking the law. Typically,the prosecutor represents the state or the government in the case brought against the accused person.
The United States Attorney for the Northern District of California is the United States Attorney responsible for representing the federal government in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
John Clayton Nienstedt is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota from 2008 to 2015. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of New Ulm in Minnesota from 2001 to 2007 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit from 1996 to 2001.
Harry Herbert Peterson was an American lawyer,judge and politician.
John Lesch is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),he last represented 66B,which included portions of Saint Paul in Ramsey County,in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is a prosecuting attorney for Saint Paul.
Ronald Steven Latz is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),he represents District 46,which includes parts of Hennepin County in the western Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is an attorney by profession.
Charles W. "Chuck" Wiger Sr. is a Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),he represents District 43,which includes parts of Ramsey and Washington counties in the northeastern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Michael Paymar is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),he represented District 64B,which includes portions of the city of Saint Paul in Ramsey County,which is part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is also a resource specialist for the Battered Women's Justice Project.
Carlos Mariani is a Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),he represents District 65B,which includes portions of the city of Saint Paul in Ramsey County,which is part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Erin Murphy is a Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),she represents District 64,which includes the Highland Park,Macalester-Groveland,Merriam Park,Summit Hill,and St. Anthony Park,neighborhoods of the city of Saint Paul in Ramsey County in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. She is a former Majority Leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives,executive director of the Minnesota Nurses Association,and is also a registered nurse.
Mary Jo McGuire is an American politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 66,which included portions of Ramsey County in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. She previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1989 to 2003,representing District 54A. Prior to the 1992 legislative redistricting,the area was known as District 63A. She currently serves on the Ramsey County Board and was reelected in 2020.
Luis C.deBaca is an American lawyer and diplomat who served in the Obama Administration as Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and as Director of the Department of Justice's Office of Sex Offender Sentencing,Monitoring,Apprehending,Registering,and Tracking.
Bruce Beemer is an American attorney and jurist serving as a judge on the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. He served as the 49th Pennsylvania Attorney General from 2016 to 2017 and as Inspector General of Pennsylvania from 2016 to 2019. He was nominated to the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas by Governor Tom Wolf and unanimously confirmed by the Pennsylvania State Senate in November 2019. He was sworn in on January 3,2020.
Melvin Whitfield Carter III is an American politician who has served as mayor of Saint Paul,Minnesota,since 2018. Elected to his first term in 2017 and reelected in 2021,Carter is the 55th mayor of St. Paul and its first African American mayor.
Erica Hinkle MacDonald is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota from 2018 to 2021. She served as a judge of the District Court for the First Judicial District of the State of Minnesota from 2010 to 2018;as an Assistant United States Attorney from 2000 to 2009;a litigation associate in 2000;and a federal judicial law clerk from 1997 to 1999.
Eli Savit is an American lawyer,law professor,and politician. He is currently serving as the Prosecuting Attorney in Washtenaw County,Michigan. His areas of expertise include civil rights,education law,environmental protection,state and local government,and criminal-justice reform.
The 2022 Minnesota Attorney General election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the attorney general of the U.S. state of Minnesota. Incumbent DFLer Keith Ellison won reelection to a second term against Republican challenger Jim Schultz.
