About me
Attorney General Liz Murrill was inaugurated Louisiana’s 46th Attorney General in 2026. As Attorney General, she has prioritized fighting crime and pursuing justice for victims. Her Louisiana roots go back eight generations. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree from LSU in 1985 in Journalism, and after working as a reporter for two years she obtained her law degree from LSU Law School in 1991. In 2010, she obtained an L.L.M. in Alternative Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine Law School. She has clerked in the federal and state courts and taught legal writing and appellate practice at LSU Law School for over a decade. She joined the executive branch of state government in 2008 where she served in several top legal positions advising Governor Bobby Jindal. Then-Attorney General Jeff Landry named her Louisiana’s first Solicitor General in 2016, a position she held for eight years at the Louisiana Department of Justice. Murrill has argued five cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in addition to numerous cases in other state and federal courts.
