Former Missouri House Speaker Catherine Hanaway appointed attorney general

Left photo: Andrew Bailey. Left photo credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives via Flickr. Public Domain. Right photo: Catherine Hanaway. Right photo credit: Mark Schierbecker via Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 4.0 (image cropped to fit). Article by Jason Hancock. Missouri Independent – August 19, 2025.

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe announced Tuesday that Catherine Hanaway will replace Andrew Bailey as the state’s next attorney general. Bailey, 44, resigned Monday after a little more than two years on the job to become co-deputy director of the FBI. Hanaway, 61, will be the fourth person to serve as Missouri attorney general since 2018, with her three predecessors leaving the job early for positions in Washington, D.C.  She will be the first woman to ever hold the job. […]

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