(1969-04-19) April 19, 1969 (age 55) West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Alanna Maguire
(m. 2015)
Children
2
Education
University of Michigan (BA)
Wayne State University (JD)
Dana Michelle Nessel[1] (born April 19, 1969) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 54th Attorney General of Michigan since January 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Nessel is the second openly lesbian woman elected attorney general of a state in the United States (after Maura Healey) and the first openly LGBT person elected to statewide office in Michigan. She is also the first Jewish person elected Attorney General of Michigan.[2]
In 2014, Nessel successfully argued for the plaintiffs in DeBoer v. Snyder, which challenged Michigan's ban on the statewide legal recognition of same-sex marriage;[3] the case was eventually combined with others and appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States as Obergefell v. Hodges, which led to the nationwide legal recognition of same-sex marriage. In 2016, she founded Fair Michigan, a nonprofit organization that works to prosecute hate crimes against the LGBT community.[4]
^Dana Nessel [@dananessel] (March 11, 2021). "When this gets directed to me, feels like the @RNC might be off to a rough election cycle" (Tweet). Retrieved March 12, 2021 – via Twitter.
^Dolsten, Josefin. "How Judaism inspires the first openly gay politician in Michigan state office". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved January 26, 2023.
^Cite error: The named reference endorsement was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Gray, Kathleen (October 19, 2018). "Nessel's quest for AG's office began on steps of U.S. Supreme Court". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
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