---
type: Person
title: "Ken Paxton"
description: "TX Attorney General — State of Texas"
role: "TX Attorney General"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "executive"
state: "TX"
tenure:
  start: "2015-01-05"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 4
ids:
  person: "54477365-4209-4344-a6c1-da5156ab0eda"
  office: "7fd4a2a9-1bd6-46dc-ab4b-6a8dc3c56da2"
  tenure: "0caafa6a-327a-4775-8d04-5e3f238c68bf"
  jurisdiction: "23070bad-a6bb-4c0f-9ba4-47c1cb5971e5"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "Derived from governor jurisdiction"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, executive, tx]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Ken Paxton

Current TX Attorney General (State of Texas).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: Derived from governor jurisdiction

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).