Letitia Ann "Tish" James (conceived October 18, 1958) is an American legal counselor, lobbyist, and government official.

She is an individual from the Democratic Party, and is the Attorney General of New York having won the 2018 political decision to succeed delegated lawyer general Barbara Underwood. She is the principal African-American and first lady to be chosen for the position. 

James recently served for 10 years as an individual from the New York City Council. She spoke to the 35th Council District, which incorporates the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, portions of Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

James led the Economic Development and Sanitation Committees, and served on a few different panels. She was later chosen the New York City Public Advocate in 2013. 

Brought up in Brooklyn, James got her J.D. degree at Howard University in Washington, D.C., subsequent to moving on from Lehman College in The Bronx.

She functioned as a public protector, at that point on staff in the New York State Assembly, and later as an Assistant Attorney General. She originally ran for city committee and won on the Working Families Party voting form line. 

Early life and training 

Letitia Ann James was conceived on October 18, 1958, in Brooklyn, the girl of Nellie and Robert James. She went to New York City state funded schools and got her B.A. from the City University of New York's Lehman College in 1981. 

She got her J.D. degree from the Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C., and was confessed to specialize in legal matters in New York state in 1989.

In 2013, she was going to Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs for a certificate in Master of Public Administration. 

Profession 

James filled in as a public protector for the Legal Aid Society and set up the Urban Network, an alliance of African American expert associations pointed toward giving grants to youngsters.

In 1994, she advanced the Primary Health Care Development Bill in the City Council, which extended day care assets for working families over the city.

In 1996, James arranged the Welfare Reform Act for the benefit of the New York State Black and Puerto Rican Caucus. 

She served on previous New York Governor Mario Cuomo's Task Force on Diversity in the Judiciary. She filled in as insight for Albert Vann, Chief of Staff for Roger L. Green in the New York State Assembly, and in the organization of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

She was designated the main Assistant Attorney General accountable for the Brooklyn local office in 1999. While working in that position, James worked in numerous limits yet eminently centered around purchaser grievances including savage loaning and other unlawful strategic policies. 

Political race 

In May 2018, James, who at first wanted to run for Mayor of New York City in 2021, proclaimed her bid for Attorney General of New York and won the Democratic essential on September 13, 2018 with 40.6% of the vote; she crushed Zephyr Teachout (31%) and two different up-and-comers. On November 6, 2018, she was chosen lawyer general, overcoming Republican Keith Wofford. 

Residency 

James was confirmed as lawyer general on January 1, 2019, succeeding Barbara Underwood, who was first named after the renunciation of Eric Schneiderman. 

State common suit against the NRA 

On 6 August 2020, in a broadcast, New York State Attorney General Letitia James reported a state common claim recorded in New York Supreme Court against the National Rifle Association (NRA), with four NRA office heads named as co-litigants.

The NRA documented a countersuit against James, refering to proclamations she made during her 2018 mission.