Lori Swanson

Lori Swanson

Infobox_Governor
name= Lori Swanson


caption=
order= 29th
office= Minnesota Attorney General
term_start= January 2, 2007
term_end=
predecessor= Mike Hatch
successor= Incumbent
birth_date= birth date and age |1966|12|16
death_date=
death_place=
profession=Attorney
party= Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
footnotes=

Lori Swanson is the Attorney General of the U.S. state of Minnesota. She was elected on November 7, 2006, and took office on January 2, 2007. She succeeded Mike Hatch, who declined to run for reelection as Attorney General in order to run for governor. She became the first woman elected Attorney General of Minnesota. She has worked with former Attorney General Mike Hatch both in the public and private sector. Prior to her election, Swanson served as the deputy attorney general under Mike Hatch's first term as Attorney General, and solicitor general in his second term. Swanson has been a tenacious consumer advocate. She filed several lawsuits against life insurance companies that sold long term annuities with high surrender charges to senior citizens. Some of these lawsuits, profiled on ABC's Dateline, have been resolved with consent orders in which insurers made over $500,000,000 in refund offers to Minnesota seniors. Swanson also drafted and secured passage of legislation to reform the mortgage market in Minnesota. She has filed almost a dozen lawsuits against mortgage companies alleging fraud and deceptive practices. Many of these lawsuits have been resolved with injunctions against the companies.

Electoral history

*2006 Race for Attorney General - General Election
**Lori Swanson (DFL) 53.24%
**Jeff Johnson (GOP) 40.72%
**John James (IP) 4.05%
*2006 Race for Attorney General - DFL Primary
**Lori Swanson 41.75%
**Bill Luther 20.91%
**Steve Kelley 37.34%

References

[http://www.ag.state.mn.us/ Attorney General of Minnesota]


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