The 2022 Arkansas Attorney General election will be held on November 8, 2022, to elect the Attorney General of Arkansas. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Leslie Rutledge won re-election on November 6, 2018 to a second term. She is term-limited and has announced a campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas in 2022[1] Primary elections were held on May 24, 2022.

Current Lieutenant Governor Tim Griffin is the Republican candidate and Chris Jones is the Democratic candidate.

Current Position: Lawyer since 2000
Affiliation: Democrat
Candidate: 2022 Attorney General

For more than 20 years, I have been committed to protecting the citizens of Arkansas.

I’ve made it my personal mission to stand up for the just causes of the hard-working people of Arkansas.

In 1996, he earned his B.S. in Business Administration, cum laude, from the University of Arkansas, and in 1999, he earned his J.D. degree, with honors, from the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law, where he was also a member of the UA Little Rock Law Review.

Source: Campaign page

Current Position: Lt. Governor since 2014
Affiliation: Republican
Candidate: 2022 Attorney General

John Timothy Griffin (born August 21, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas between 2006 and 2007 and U.S. Representative for Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2015.

Griffin defeated Democrat John Burkhalter in 2014 and has served under Governor Asa Hutchinson since holding the lieutenant governorship. In summer 2020, Griffin announced his candidacy for the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election,[1] but withdrew from the race in February 2021 to run for Arkansas Attorney General instead.