Chapter 9 – The Governor & Other Executives
9.10 Attorney General Dave Yost
The current Attorney General is Dave Yost (Republican). He graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism. He earned a Juris Doctor from the Capital University Law School. After earning his bachelor’s degree, Yost became a journalist with the Columbus Citizen-Journal.
Yost later served in senior positions within the administration of Columbus Mayor Buck Rinehart and Governor George Voinovich.
Dave Yost was appointed Delaware County Auditor in 1999 and became the Delaware County Prosecutor in 2003. He was elected Ohio’s 32nd state auditor in 2010 after an earlier bid for the Republican nomination for Ohio attorney general. In January 2017, Yost announced his candidacy for Ohio Attorney General, a position he won in 2018 by defeating Democrat Steve Dettelbach. Yost was re-elected in 2022, defeating Democratic candidate Jeffrey Crossman.
The text in the above bio is quoted directly from the following source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Yost