Phil Weiser is Colorado's Attorney General, serving since 2019 after being elected in 2018 and reelected in 2022. He was the first Democrat elected AG in 14 years, breaking a Republican streak. Before becoming AG, Weiser served as dean of the University of Colorado Law School. He has established himself as a prominent Trump adversary, filing multiple lawsuits against the Trump administration and securing major settlements from opioid manufacturers and social media companies.
First-generation American whose mother and grandmother were liberated from a Nazi concentration camp during WWII. Weiser earned his B.A. from Swarthmore College and J.D. from NYU Law School. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and served in the Obama and Clinton administrations as Deputy Assistant Attorney General.