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'''Elizabeth Baker Murrill,''' known as '''Liz Murrill''' (born December 6, 1963), is the incoming [[Republican Party|Republican]] state attorney general in her native [[Louisiana]]. She succeeds [[Jeff Landry]] on January 8, 2024, as Landry takes the oath of office as [[governor]]. Since the [[Reconstruction]] era, she is the first woman and the third Republican to have served as attorney general.

'''Elizabeth Baker Murrill,''' known as '''Liz Murrill''' (born December 6, 1963), is the incoming [[Republican Party|Republican]] state attorney general in her native [[Louisiana]]. She succeeds [[Jeff Landry]] on January 8, 2024, as Landry takes the oath of office as [[governor]]. Since the [[Reconstruction]] era, she is the first woman and the third Republican to have served as attorney general.

When Landry announced for governor in 2023, a plethora of candidates ran to succeed him as attorney general, including Landry's Republican choice, [[Liz Murrill]]; two other Republicans, Marty Maley and state Representative [[John Stefanski]], a Moderate Republican, and the two Democrat choices, Lindsey Cheek and Perry Walker Terrebonne. Murrill led the primary with 463,108 votes (45 percent) and faced Cheek, who drew 239,653 primary votes (23 percent)<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref> In the general election runoff contest on November 18, Murrill was an easy winner over Lindsey Cheek, 444,081 (66 percent) to 225,011 (34 percent). She will become attorney general when Landry is inaugurated as governor on January 8, 2024.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 18, 2023.</ref>  

When Landry announced for governor in 2023, a plethora of candidates ran to succeed him as attorney general, including Landry's Republican choice, Liz Murrill; two other Republicans, Marty Maley and state Representative [[John Stefanski]], a Moderate Republican, and the two Democrat choices, Lindsey Cheek and Perry Walker Terrebonne. Murrill led the primary with 463,108 votes (45 percent) and faced Cheek, who drew 239,653 primary votes (23 percent)<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref> In the general election runoff contest on November 18, Murrill was an easy winner over Lindsey Cheek, 444,081 (66 percent) to 225,011 (34 percent). She will become attorney general when Landry is inaugurated as governor on January 8, 2024.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 18, 2023.</ref>  

Murrill has been the state solicitor general, the first to fill the post, under Landry. She worked in the governor’s office from November 2008 and served for two and a half years as the deputy executive counsel to then Republican Governor [[Bobby Jindal]]. She was thereafter elevated to Executive Counsel, the chief legal advisor to the governor. While working for Jindal, Murrill became involved in a dispute with ''LouisianaVoice'' over the release of public records related to the LSU Board of Supervisors’ decision to cut health care spending and to make state hospital private. Shelby McKenzie, an attorney retained by LSU, said that Murrill had advised him that the board should invoke the so-called “deliberative process” in order to deny the release of the records.<ref>Like a recurring dream, the ghost of Jindal Past haunts Louisiana as holdover Liz Murrill contemplates AG run | Louisiana Voice , accessed November 21, 2023</ref>

Murrill has been the state solicitor general, the first to fill the post, under Landry. She worked in the governor’s office from November 2008 and served for two and a half years as the deputy executive counsel to then Republican Governor [[Bobby Jindal]]. She was thereafter elevated to Executive Counsel, the chief legal advisor to the governor. While working for Jindal, Murrill became involved in a dispute with ''LouisianaVoice'' over the release of public records related to the LSU Board of Supervisors’ decision to cut health care spending and to make state hospital private. Shelby McKenzie, an attorney retained by LSU, said that Murrill had advised him that the board should invoke the so-called “deliberative process” in order to deny the release of the records.<ref>Like a recurring dream, the ghost of Jindal Past haunts Louisiana as holdover Liz Murrill contemplates AG run | Louisiana Voice , accessed November 21, 2023</ref>