Governor Newsom has announced his choice to be California's next attorney general Wednesday afternoon.
It is State Assemblymember Rob Bonta, a criminal justice reformer, who represents the 18th district in the Bay Area. He is also the first Filipino Attorney General in California but before that he was the first Filipino American legislator in California history.
"As California's first Filipino Attorney General, Assemblymember Rob Bonta will fight to reform our justice system & stand up to hate. He has led efforts to end cash bail, ban for-profit prisons, renter protections, and hate crime protections. He will be a staunch advocate for California values," the Officer of the Governor said Wednesday on Facebook.
Bonta got his law degree from Yale Law after attending Yale and Oxford. According to his official biography on his website, "His legal career included work as a Deputy City Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco, where he represented the City and County and its employees, and as a private attorney, where he fought to protect Californians from exploitation and racial profiling."
Initially as reported earlier, it looks like we know who it won't be. It's reported by Politico that the governor has told Congressman Adam Schiff and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg they will not be picked.
The attorney general slot opened when Xavier Becerra became the new Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in the Biden administration.