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Jennifer Granholm
(Michigan Attorney General)
Campaign address:
P.O. Box 1909
Royal Oak, MI 48068
Telephone:
734-542-7490
Fax:
734-542-7491
Email:
info@granholmforgov.com
Website:
http://www.granholmforgov.com/
Bio:
Jennifer M. Granholm was elected Michigan's 51st Attorney General in
November 1998. Since taking office in 1999, Attorney General Granholm has been a vigilant protector of consumers and families; she filed the state's first-ever criminal charges against an individual for
failing to protect the safety of workers on the job; and has taken criminal action against numerous nursing homes and physicians for
either the neglect or abuse of their patients or their attempts to defraud the Michigan Medicaid system. She has established the Attorney General's office as the state's leading force in prosecuting
environmental crimes by adding the state's first full-time environmental crimes prosecutor and by leading a number of state-federal-local environmental crime taskforces.
An honors graduate of both the University of California at Berkeley and
Harvard Law School, she clerked on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Damon J. Keith and was appointed Wayne County Corporation Counsel in 1994. While there, she reduced
taxpayer-funded lawsuit payouts by 87 percent. Before joining the Wayne County staff, she was a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office where she maintained a 98 percent conviction rate.
Granholm has been recognized by numerous community and professional organizations and has been honored as the Public
Servant of the Year by the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police, as Woman of the Year by the YWCA, as one of the top ten lawyers of the year by Michigan Lawyers Weekly magazine, and as a
Michigander of the Year by the Michigan Jaycees. She recently received the "Friend of Education" award from the MEA. She currently serves on a number of boards and foundations including
Cyberstate.org.
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