Leadership Center for Attorney General Studies

Doug Chin

Doug Chin served as the Attorney General of Hawaii from 2015 to 2018 and the Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii from February-December in 2018. He is now a director at Starn, O’Toole, Marcus & Fisher.

Chin was the first Hawaii Attorney General to chair the Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG), and the first to serve on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), and the first to serve as the policy chair for the Democratic Attorneys General Association (DAGA). He earned national and state recognition for his challenge to the Trump Administration’s Muslim Travel Ban and his successful negotiations resulting in $15 million settlement to the state department of land and natural resources.

George Jepsen

George Jepsen served as the 24th Attorney General of Connecticut from 2011 to 2019. He is now a partner at Shipman & Goodwin, LLC.

During his tenure in the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General, Jepsen earned a reputation for his leadership skills and his ability to work across the aisle. Jepsen served in a leadership role on high-profile national investigations, including price-fixing in the generic drug industry, the largest mortgage-foreclosure settlement in U.S. history, abusive consumer account practices by corporations. He served as the President of National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) from 2016-2017. In 2017, the organization recognized him with NAAG’s highest honor, the Kelley-Wyman Award, annually given to the attorney general who has done the most to achieve NAAG objectives.

Natalie Ludaway

Natalie O. Ludaway is a partner at Crowell & Moring, and a member of its State Attorneys General and Litigation practices. The former Chief Deputy of the Office of Attorney General (OAG) for the District of Columbia, Natalie oversaw multistate and single jurisdiction investigations, enforcement, and litigation matters in all areas of AG authority, including consumer protection, antitrust, civil rights, privacy and cybersecurity, environmental, false claims, nonprofits, utilities, and wage misclassification claims. In this role, she collaborated with attorneys general and their senior staff throughout the United States, including with the bipartisan National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) and its various committees.

Natalie has served for a decade as a member of the District’s Judicial Nomination Commission, which screens and recommends candidates for appointment as judges on the D.C. Superior Court and the D.C. Court of Appeals. She is a Board member of the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital and a member of the Match Group Advisory Council (MGAC). Natalie has received numerous recognitions for her contributions to the District of Columbia’s legal and business communities.

Daniel Suvor

Daniel Suvor, former Chief of Policy and Senior Counsel to California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris. Daniel served as Harris’s primary legal policy advisor, responsible for developing and executing the Attorney General’s policy initiatives and supervising some of the department’s most complex and high-profile matters. He is now a partner at O’Melveny & Myers LLP.

Previously, Daniel was appointed by President Obama to serve at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Daniel counseled CMS and HHS on Affordable Care Act implementation and served as HHS’ lead agency counsel on dozens of constitutional challenges to the Affordable Care Act, including the NFIB v. Sebelius case. Daniel later served in the Obama White House as senior director of the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs, where he coordinated logistics, communications and policy between the President and his domestic cabinet agencies (including HHS and the U.S. Department of Justice).

Sean Rankin

Sean has provided policy and political guidance on staff and as a consultant to government officials, candidates for office, and progressive causes and organizations for twenty-five years. For the last seven years, he has worked exclusively with State Attorneys General, leading two non-profits and a political organization focused on Attorneys General and their impact on communities. He also provided policy support and guidance to government officials in developing countries on economic development, encouraging investment, and fostering entrepreneurship.

Outside of the political arena, Sean worked in the private sector in venture capital and private equity and as a business consultant in the U.S. and overseas. He has helped launch, guide, and grow start-up companies in sectors ranging from entertainment and content distribution to mobile banking. He has board experience with for-profit and not-for-profit companies in the US and abroad. Sean earned his MBA from the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business with a focus on finance and entrepreneurship and a joint BA in Political Science and English, graduating with Honors, from the University of Kentucky.