Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory

Chief law officer for the state of Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory
Coat of arms of the Australian Capital Territory
Flag of the Australian Capital Territory
Incumbent Shane Rattenbury since 4 November 2020
Justice and Community Safety Directorate
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Legislative Assembly Cabinet
Reports to	Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory
Seat	Canberra
Nominator	Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory
Appointer	ACT Legislative Assembly
Formation	18 May 1989
First holder	Rosemary Follett
Deputy	ACT Government Solicitor
Website	www.justice.act.gov.au

The Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory, in formal contexts also Attorney-General or Attorney General for the Australian Capital Territory, is the primary Law Officer of the Crown in the Australian Capital Territory. The Attorney General serves as the chief legal and constitutional adviser of the ACT Government and is the head of the Justice and Community Safety Directorate. Its constitutional role was established in 1989 with the enactment by the Federal Parliament of the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988.

Shane Rattenbury, MLA, a representative of the ACT Greens, became Attorney General on 3 November 2020.

List of attorneys-general

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Timespan	Party
1	Rosemary Follett	18 May 1989	14 December 1989	210 days	Labor
2	Bernard Collaery	14 December 1989	18 June 1991	1 year, 186 days	Residents Rally
3	Terry Connolly	18 June 1991	17 March 1995	3 years, 272 days	Labor
4	Gary Humphries	17 March 1995	15 December 2000	5 years, 273 days	Liberal
5	Bill Stefaniak	15 December 2000	14 November 2001	334 days	Liberal
6	Jon Stanhope	14 November 2001	18 April 2006	5 years, 158 days	Labor
7	Simon Corbell	18 April 2006	31 October 2016	10 years, 196 days	Labor
8	Gordon Ramsay	31 October 2016	3 November 2020	4 years, 3 days	Labor
9	Shane Rattenbury	4 November 2020	incumbent	currently 4 years, 45 days	Greens

"Commonwealth Consolidated Acts - AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 - SECT 3". AustLII. Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
O'Neill, Patrick. "Australian Capital Territory Attorneys-General 1989+". List of Australian Attorneys-General. Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 11 September 2015.

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Executive	Chief Minister Deputy Chief Minister Treasurer Attorney-General Minister for Health ACT Ministry
Legislative	Legislative Assembly Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Electorates Opposition Leader MLAs
Judicial	Supreme Court Magistrates Court Coroner's Court

Current Australian Attorneys-General - Federal, states and internal territories

Federal	States						Internal Territories
Australia	New South Wales	Queensland	South Australia	Tasmania	Victoria	Western Australia	Australian Capital Territory	Northern Territory
Mark Dreyfus (ALP)	Michael Daley (ALP)	vacant (N/A)	Kyam Maher (ALP)	Guy Barnett (Lib)	Jaclyn Symes (ALP)	John Quigley (ALP)	Shane Rattenbury (Greens)	Marie-Clare Boothby (CLP)