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Kristin Kay Mayes is an American lawyer, politician, and journalist who has been the 27th Arizona attorney general since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Mayes was elected in 2022, defeating Republican Abraham Hamadeh by a margin of just 280 votes in one of the closest elections in the state's history. Previously Mayes was a professor of practice at Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and chair of the Arizona Corporation Commission. Mayes is the second woman elected Arizona attorney general, the third openly lesbian woman elected attorney general of a state in the United States, and the second openly LGBT person elected to statewide office in Arizona.