Attorney General of Colorado
Incumbent Phil Weiser since January 8, 2019
Colorado Department of Law
Constituting instrument	Colorado Constitution
Website	www.coag.gov

The Attorney General of the State of Colorado is the chief legal officer for the U.S. State of Colorado and the head of the Colorado Department of Law, a principal department of the Colorado state government. It is an elected position with a four-year term, and follows the same schedule as election of the governor. The incumbent Colorado Attorney General is Democrat Phil Weiser, who was elected in November 2018 to a four-year term that began on January 8, 2019.

The Department of Law has seven sections: Appellate, Natural Resources and Environmental, Consumer Protection, State Services, Civil Litigation and Employment Law, Criminal Justice, Revenue & Utilities, and Business & Licensing.^[1]

Attorneys general of the Territory of Colorado

From 1873 to 1877 the Attorney General position was filled by the U.S. Attorney due to lack of funding by the territorial government. In 1876 Colorado was admitted to the Union as a State.

Attorneys general of the State of Colorado

Image	Attorney General of the State of Colorado	Political party	Order	Term of Service
	A. J. Sampson	Republican	1st	1877–1878
	Charles W. Wright	Republican	2nd	1879–1880
	Charles H. Toll	Republican	3rd	1881–1882
	David F. Urmy	Republican	4th	1883–1884
	Theodore H. Thomas	Republican	5th	1885–1886
	Alvin Marsh	Republican	6th	1887–1888
	Samuel W. Jones	Republican	7th	1889–1890
	Joseph H. Maupin	Democrat	8th	1891–1892
	Eugene Engley	People's Party	9th	1893–1894
	Byron L. Carr	Republican	10th	1895–1898
	David M. Campbell	Republican	11th	1899–1900
	Charles C. Post	Republican	12th	1901–1902
	Nathan C. Miller	Republican	13th	1903–1906
	William H. Dickson	Republican	14th	1907–1908
	John T. Barnett	Democrat	15th	1909–1910
	Benjamin Griffith	Republican	16th	1911–1912
	Fred Farrar	Democrat	17th	1913–1916
	Leslie E. Hubbard	Democrat	18th	1917–1918
	Victor E. Keyes	Republican	19th	1919–1922
	Russel W. Fleming	Democrat	20th	1923–1924
	Wayne C. Williams	Democrat	21st	1924–1925
	William Boatright	Republican	22nd	1925–1928
	Robert E. Winbourn	Republican	23rd	1929–1930
	John S. Underwood	Republican	24th	1930–1931
	Clarence L. Ireland	Republican	25th	1931–1932
	Paul P. Prosser	Democrat	26th	1933–1936
	Byron G. Rogers	Democrat	27th	1936–1940
	Gail L. Ireland	Republican	28th	1941–1945
	H. Lawrence Hinkley	Republican	29th	1945–1949
	John W. Metzger	Democrat	30th	1949–1950
	Duke W. Dunbar	Republican	31st	1951–1972
	John P. Moore	Republican	32nd	1972–1974
	J.D. MacFarlane	Democrat	33rd	1975–1982
	Duane Woodard	Republican/Democrat	34th	1983–1991
	Gale Norton	Republican	35th	1991–1999
	Ken Salazar	Democrat	36th	1999–2005
	John Suthers	Republican	37th	2005–2015
	Cynthia Coffman	Republican	38th	2015–2019
	Phil Weiser	Democrat	39th	2019-present