List of California district attorneys

This is a list of notable people who have held the role of district attorney in California.

List by county

Counties (A-M)

Alameda County

• Earl Warren (1925-1939)
• Tom Orloff (1994-2009)
• Nancy O'Malley (2009-2023)
• Pamela Price (2023-2024) ()
• Royl Roberts (interim) (2024-2025)
• Ursula Jones Dickson (2025-present) ()

Alpine County

• Christopher W. Smith (1977-1981)
• Robert Priscaro (2022-present)

Amador County

• Robert M. Briggs (1862-1867, 1871)
• Anthony Caminetti (1878-1882) ()
• Gale Cuneo (1979-1983)

Butte County

• Albert F. Jones (1883-1884)
• Michael L. Ramsey (1987-present)

Calaveras County

• William Higby (1853-1859)

Colusa County

• John Poynder (1984-2016)

Contra Costa County

• John A. Nejedly (1958-1969)
• Mark Peterson (2010-2017)
• Diana Becton (2017-present) ()

Del Norte County

• Michael Riese (1997-2010)
• Jon Alexander (2011-2014)

El Dorado County

• Silas Sanderson (1861-1864)
• Gideon J. Carpenter

Fresno County

• Campbell E. Beaumont (1918-1921)
• Glenn M. DeVore (1926-1934)

Glenn County

Humboldt County

• Walter Van Dyke (1854-1855)
• John J. De Haven (1967-1869)
• Terry Farmer (1983-2002)
• Paul Gallegos (2002-2014)
• Maggie Fleming (2015-2022)
• Stacy Eads (2022- present)

Imperial County

• John Morton Eshleman (1907-1910)
• Phil Swing (1911-1915)

Inyo County

• H.L. Gibbons (1974-1997)

Kern County

• Ed Jagels (1983-2010)

Kings County

• Justin Miller (1915-1918)

Lake County

Lassen County

• Isaac Roop

Los Angeles County

• Kimball H. Dimmick (1852-1853)
• Cameron E. Thom (1854-1857, 1869-1873, 1877-1879)
• Ezra Drown (1857-1859, 1961-1863)
• Edward J. C. Kewen (1859-1861)
• Alfred Chapman (1863-1864, 1867-1869)
• Volney Howard (1864-1867, 1873-1876)
• Stephen M. White (1882-1884)
• George S. Patton (1887-1887) ()
• James McLachlan (1890-1892) ()
• John D. Fredericks (1903-1915) ()
• Thomas L. Woolwine (1915-1923) ()
• Asa Keyes (1923-1928) ()
• Buron Fitts (1928-1940) ()
• John F. Dockweiler (1940-1943) ()
• Frederick N. Howser (1943-1946) ()
• Evelle J. Younger (1964-1971) ()
• Joseph P. Busch (1970-1975)
• John Van de Kamp (1975-1981) ()
• Robert Philibosian (1982-1984) ()
• Ira Reiner (1984-1992) ()
• Gil Garcetti (1992-2000) ()
• Steve Cooley (2000-2012) ()
• Jackie Lacey (2012-2020) ()
• George Gascón (2020-2024) ()
• Nathan Hochman (2024-present) ()

Madera County

• David Minier (1976-1991)

Marin County

• Thomas J. Bowers (1873-1879)
• Frank M. Angellotti (1885-1891) ()
• Richard M. Sims Jr. (1950-1953)

Mariposa County

Mendocino County

• Frank S. Petersen (1960-1962)
• C. David Eyster (2011-present)

Merced County

• Peter D. Wigginton (1864-1868)
• John Witherspoon Breckinridge (1890-1892)
• Nicole Silveira (2022-present)

Modoc County

• John E. Raker (1895-1899)

Mono County

• George N. Whitman (1868)

Monterey County

• Delos R. Ashley (1851-1852)
• Bradley V. Sargent Jr. (1890-1892)

Counties (N-Z)

Napa County

• Frank Coombs (1880-1885)
• Theodore Arlington Bell (1895-1903)
• Allison Haley (2016-present)

Nevada County

• John R. McConnell (1852)
• William M. Stewart (1852-1853)
• Niles Searls (1983)
• John Isaiah Caldwell (1870-1871)
• Aaron A. Sargent (1885/86-1886) ()

Orange County

• Tony Rackauckas (1999-2019)
• Todd Spitzer (2019-present)

Placer County

• Jo Hamilton (1860, 1862)

Plumas County

• Ulysses S. Webb (1890-1902)

Riverside County

• Rod Pacheco (2007-2011)
• Michael Hestrin (2014-present) ()

Sacramento County

• Frank Hereford (1855-1857)
• William W. Upton (1861-1864)
• Robert F. Morrison
• Steve White (1989-1995)
• Anne Marie Schubert (2014-2023)
• Thien Ho (2022-present)

San Benito County

• George H. Moore (1917-1927)

San Bernardino County

• Michael A. Ramos (2002-2019) ()
• Jason Anderson (2019-present)

San Diego County

• Thomas W. Sutherland (1851-1852)
• William Jefferson Hunsaker (1882-1884)
• Spencer M. Marsh (1915-1917)
• Bonnie Dumanis (2003-2017) ()
• Summer Stephan (2017-present) ()

San Francisco County (City and County of San Francisco)

• Lewis Francis Byington (1900-1905) ()
• William Langdon (1906-1910)
• Charles Fickert (1910-1920)
• Matthew Brady (1920-1944) ()
• Pat Brown (1944-1951) ()
• Thomas C. Lynch (1951-1964) ()
• John J. Ferdon (1964-1976)
• Joseph Freitas Jr. (1976-1980)
• Arlo Smith (1980-1996) ()
• Terence Hallinan (1996-2004) ()
• Kamala Harris (2004-2011) ()
• George Gascón (2011-2019) ()
• Suzy Loftus (interim) (2019-2020) ()
• Chesa Boudin (2020-2022) ()
• Brooke Jenkins (2022-present) ()

San Joaquin County

• Forsythe Charles Clowdsley (1937)

San Luis Obispo County

• Gerald Shea (1998-2013)

San Mateo County

• Charles N. Fox (1858-1862)

Santa Barbara County

• David Minier (1967-1975)
• Thomas W. Sneddon Jr. (1983-2007)

Santa Clara County

• Augustus Rhodes (1859-1860)

Santa Cruz County

• James Harvey Logan (1872-1873, 1875-1880)
• W. D. Storey (1879)
• William T. Jeter (1884-1892)
• Christopher Cottle (1975-1977)

Shasta County

• Jesse W. Carter (1919-1927)
• McGregor W. Scott (1997-2003)

Sierra County

• Tirey L. Ford (1988-1990) ()

Siskiyou County

Solano County

• Joseph McKenna (1866-1868)
• Abram J. Buckles (1879-1884)

• Krishna Abrams (2014-present)

Sonoma County

• Clarence F. Lea (1907-1917)
• Emmett Seawell (1892-1902)

Stanislaus County

• Sherrill Halbert (1949-1954)
• Birgit Fladager (2006-2023)

Sutter County

• Carl Adams (1982-2013)

Tehama County

• Clair Engle (1934-1942)
• Gregg Cohen (1998-2018)

Trinity County

• John Chilton Burch (1853-1856)
• Donna Daly (2018-2020)

Tulare County

Tuolumne County

• Caleb Dorsey (1856-1857)
• John Curtin (1892-1898)

Ventura County

Yolo County

• Charles H. Garoute (1877-1879)

Yuba County

• Isaac S. Belcher (1856-1857) (Know Nothing)
• Edwin Alexander Forbes (1894-1897)

Deputy district attorneys

• Maxine M. Chesney
• Carol Corrigan
• Jeff Gorell
• Kimberly Guilfoyle
• Henry T. Hazard
• Hiram Johnson
• John Miner
• Arthur Ohnimus
• Pierre-Richard Prosper
• Timothy Stoen
• Stanley Weisberg

References