{"id":4036,"date":"2025-08-19T10:36:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/former-missouri-house-speaker-catherine-hanaway-appointed-attorney-general-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:36:34","slug":"former-missouri-house-speaker-catherine-hanaway-appointed-attorney-general-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/former-missouri-house-speaker-catherine-hanaway-appointed-attorney-general-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Missouri House Speaker Catherine Hanaway appointed attorney general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_2302-e1755617763363.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Catherine Hanaway talks to reporters on Aug. 19 after being announced as the state&#8217;s next attorney general (Jason Hancock\/Missouri Independent).<\/p>\n<p><span>Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe announced Tuesday that Catherine Hanaway will replace Andrew Bailey as the state\u2019s next attorney general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bailey, 44, resigned Monday after a little more than two years on the job to become <a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2025\/08\/18\/andrew-bailey-stepping-down-as-missouri-attorney-general-for-job-in-trump-administration\/\">co-deputy director of the FBI<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hanaway, 61, will be the fourth person to serve as Missouri attorney general since 2018, with her three predecessors leaving the job early for positions in Washington, D.C. \u00a0She will be the first woman to ever hold the job.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She can serve out Bailey\u2019s term, which runs until the end of 2028, and on Tuesday told reporters she plans to seek a full term of her own in three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy game plan, for sure, is to serve the next three years,\u201d she said, \u201cand then if Missourians will vote for me and believe I earned a full term, then I\u2019d like to serve a full term.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"cjmJhQkg5x\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2025\/08\/18\/andrew-bailey-stepping-down-as-missouri-attorney-general-for-job-in-trump-administration\/\">Andrew Bailey stepping down as Missouri attorney general for job in Trump administration<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>A former federal prosecutor, Hanaway was the first and only woman to ever serve as speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives. She twice ran unsuccessfully for statewide office, losing to Democrat Robin Carnahan for secretary of state in 2004 and finishing fourth in the Republican primary for governor in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After she left public life, Hanaway focused on her law practice and eventually became a partner at the Husch Blackwell. In 2018, she garnered headlines after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlpr.org\/government-politics-issues\/2018-05-18\/once-a-rival-hanaway-details-why-she-signed-onto-greitens-legal-team\" target=\"_blank\"><span>joining the legal team<\/span><\/a><span> representing the campaign committee of the man who beat her in the ugly 2016 GOP primary, Eric Greitens.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Her highest profile client in recent years has been Grain Belt Express, a planned transmission line designed to transport electricity generated by wind farms in Kansas across four states, including Missouri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the works for more than a decade, the transmission line has drawn fierce criticism from GOP officials and agriculture groups like the Missouri Farm Bureau over the company\u2019s use of eminent domain to take land or easements from unwilling landowners and compensate them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Those critics include Bailey, who has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missourinet.com\/2025\/07\/02\/missouri-ag-bailey-launches-investigation-into-grain-belt-express-power-line-project\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span>used the attorney general\u2019s office to target the project<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Grain Belt Express filed <a href=\"https:\/\/ktvo.com\/news\/local\/grain-belt-express-files-petition-quashset-aside-missouri-attorney-general-ag-andrew-bailey-investigation-us-senator-republican-josh-hawley-energy-transmission-line-illinois-kansas-indiana-public-service-commission-department-of-energy-sec-chris-wright\" target=\"_blank\">a lawsuit against the attorney general\u2019s office<\/a> last month over a demand to hand over documents, and Hanaway is the company\u2019s lead counsel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cGrain Belt Express seeks to bring an end to the (attorney general\u2019s) unlawful and politically motivated investigation,\u201d Hanaway said in a statement last month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hanaway said Tuesday that the attorney general\u2019s investigation into Grain Belt will continue and she will recuse herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team that is there, the great team that is there, will be able to go forward without my input,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s a great team on it, and they\u2019ll continue to do their work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after Kehoe announced her appointment, Hanaway emphasized her rural roots, noting that the dorm she moved into when she attended the University of Missouri was bigger than her hometown in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m humbled beyond belief to accept this appointment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She ticked through what she sees as the role of the attorney general\u2019s office, saying the most important job is \u201cto protect Missourians from anyone who would do violence against them, who would rip them off in financial schemes, who would abuse them by providing terrible care and getting paid by Medicaid and anyone who would try to invade their constitutional rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fighting crime, she said, will \u201cremain job one,\u201d noting her previous work as a U.S. attorney.<\/p>\n<p>She quoted the late Kit Bond, Missouri\u2019s former governor and U.S. Senator, who she says taught her that \u201cpeople don\u2019t care how much you know until they know how much you care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI promise to you that as attorney general, I will work as hard as I can,\u201d she said. \u201cI will be innovative. I will adapt to changing times. But more than anything else, I\u2019ll show Missourians just how much I care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story will be updated.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Hanaway talks to reporters on Aug. 19 after being announced as the state&#8217;s next attorney general (Jason Hancock\/Missouri Independent). Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe announced Tuesday that Catherine Hanaway will replace Andrew Bailey as the state\u2019s next attorney general. 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