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Current roleAttorney General
PartyRepublican
Political ideologyConservative Republican
Age61 years old (Oct 26, 1964)
GenderMale
LocationAlabama
BackgroundAttorney
EducationUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A., American Studies, 1987)
Notable personal detailsSteven Troy Marshall is an American lawyer and prosecutor who has served as the 48th Attorney General of Alabama since 2017. He previously served as the District Attorney for Marshall County, Alabama, from 2001 to 2017 after earlier work as a prosecutor. He has been a candidate for U.S. Senate in Alabama in the 2026 election cycle.
Supports cutting taxes, eliminating unnecessary regulations, reducing wasteful government spending, and making the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent; emphasizes lowering prices and helping small businesses and working families through pro-growth, pro-energy policies.
Steve Marshall has taken actions as Alabama Attorney General that seek to limit expansion of federal healthcare mandates and eligibility (including litigation against HHS/ACA rules) and to strengthen state authority over Medicaid oversight and fraud investigations. His public positions emphasize restricting certain federal ACA-related expansions and opposing mandated coverage for gender-transition interventions.
Supports aggressive border security and enforcement measures, including legal challenges to federal immigration policies, opposition to sanctuary policies, and backing policies such as finishing a border wall, reinstating restrictive asylum/parole practices, and large-scale removals. Has repeatedly joined multistate lawsuits and coalition statements seeking to restrict parole programs, defend federal immigration enforcement, and criticize the Biden administration’s border policies.
Supports strict limits and bans on abortion and has acted to defend and expand Alabama’s abortion restrictions; has sought enforcement actions and legal arguments to criminalize facilitators who help Alabamians obtain abortions out of state and has opposed loosening access to abortion-inducing drugs and federal funding for abortion.
The candidate opposes expansive federal climate regulations and legal efforts that would hold energy companies liable for historic emissions, supports state sovereignty over energy and water regulation, and has joined multistate actions challenging EPA rules and Biden-era climate grant programs while framing such actions as threats to energy independence and economic costs.
Steve Marshall positions himself as a defender of the Second Amendment, opposing federal and state-level restrictions on lawful gun ownership while supporting law enforcement and public safety enforcement of existing laws. As Alabama Attorney General he has joined multistate legal actions against firearm-carry restrictions and highlights defending gun rights on his campaign website.
Steve Marshall is in the news as a leading contender in Alabama’s U.S. Senate race, where he is competing against Barry Moore. A crypto-focused super PAC, Fairshake, says it will spend $5 million to support Moore, adding outside money and pro-crypto messaging to the contest. Recent voter surveys cited in the report show Marshall currently leading.





Aggregation source: FiftyPlusOne
2026
LatestCycle 2026
Source: FEC
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