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Line 33: '''Andrea Joy Campbell''' is an American lawyer and politician who is serving as the [[Attorney General of Massachusetts\|attorney general]] of [[Massachusetts]]. Campbell is a former member of the [[Boston City Council]]. On the city council, she represented District 4, which includes parts of Boston's [[Dorchester, Boston\|Dorchester]], [[Mattapan]], [[Jamaica Plain]], and [[Roslindale]] neighborhoods. A member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)\|Democratic Party]], she was first elected to the council in November 2015 and assumed office in January 2016. She served as president of the council from January 2018 until January 2020.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Boston edges toward historic shift as mayoral field narrows \|last=LeBlanc \|first=Steve \|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/boston-edges-historic-shift-mayoral-field-narrows-79496224 \|website=ABC News \|agency=Associated Press \|access-date=17 August 2021 \|language=en \|date=17 August 2021}}</ref> Campbell unsuccessfully ran for [[mayor of Boston]] in [[2021 Boston mayoral election\|2021]], placing third in the nonpartisan [[primary election]] behind [[Annissa Essaibi George]] and [[Michelle Wu]], the latter of whom would go on to win the general election. [[2022 Massachusetts Attorney General election\|In 2022]], Campbell announced her candidacy in that year's election for attorney general of Massachusetts. Campbell was the first black woman to qualify for ballot access for statewide office in Massachusetts. Winning the Democratic Party's nomination with a sizable ~~win~~victory in the Democratic primary, Campbell won the general election by a large margin. In January 2023, she was sworn in as attorney general, becoming the first black woman to hold the office and only the second black person to hold it, preceded only by [[Edward Brooke]]. ==Early life and education== Line 47: After graduating from UCLA School of Law, Campbell began her legal career by spending a year working as a staff attorney at EdLaw, a [[nonprofit]] in Roxbury that provided students and parents with free legal services pertaining to education rights and access to education.<ref name="BU1"/><ref name="WGBHprofile1"/><ref name="WGBHfivekey">{{cite web \|last1=Wintersmith \|first1=Saraya \|title=Andrea Campbell: Five key things to know as she starts to campaign for Attorney General \|url=https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2022/02/02/andrea-campbell-five-key-things-to-know-as-she-starts-to-campaign-for-attorney-general \|website=wgbh.org \|publisher=WGBH \|access-date=8 April 2023 \|language=en \|date=2 February 2022}}</ref> After this, Campbell spent two years at the [[Proskauer Rose]] legal firm where she provided advice to companies located in Boston and [[New York City]] on matters related to employment law and labor relations.<ref name="WGBHprofile1"/><ref name="WGBHfivekey"/> Campbell ~~spend~~spent three months working as the interim general counsel for Boston's [[Metropolitan Area Planning Council]].<ref name="WGBHprofile1"/><ref name="WGBHfivekey"/> She later worked as deputy legal counsel to Governor [[Deval Patrick]].<ref name="New Look">{{cite news\|title=A look at new District 4 councilor Andrea Joy Campbell\|work=The Boston Globe\|date=November 4, 2015\|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/11/04/look-new-district-councilor-andrea-joy-campbell/b3FYrQedasq3JtMU5PtrXL/story.html\|access-date=January 28, 2018}}</ref><ref name="BU1"/><ref name="WGBHprofile1"/><ref name="WGBHfivekey"/> ==Boston City Council== Line 173: ==Political positions== Campbell is regarded to be a [[Progressivism in the United States\|progressive]] member of the Democratic Party.<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Deehan \|first1=Mike \|title=Massachussetts [sic] Voters Opt for a Shade of Purple \|url=https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2022/09/08/massachussetts-progressives-moderates-primaries \|website=Axios \|access-date=4 April 2024 \|date=September 8, 2022}}</ref> ===Criminal justice===