Katherine Robertson, the chief counsel for the current Alabama attorney general, will make official today her 2026 bid to be the state’s top law enforcement officer.
Robertson has been an expected high-profile candidate in next year’s contest. Attorney General Steve Marshall is term limited and running for U.S. Senate. He is expected to be at Robertson’s announcement this evening in Birmingham.
Other announced candidates are former Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice Jay Mitchell, who left the bench last month to seek the office, and Pamela Casey, district attorney for Blount County.
The 2026 primaries are May 19.
Robertson has been Marshall’s chief counsel since he took office in 2017. She has a bachelor’ degree in political science from Auburn University and a law degree from the University of Alabama School of Law. She’s worked for the U.S. Department of Justice and was legislative counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee under former U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions.