Former Miss America and Urbana attorney Erika Harold has announced that she will seek the republican nomination for Illinois Attorney General in 2018.
She will seek to unseat incumbent Democrat Lisa Madigan who has been in the job for four terms.
In her announcement she said she wishes to take on the career politicians in Illinois:
“Career politicians have made it a nightmare for too many families in our state,” Harold said. “Today, I am announcing my candidacy for Attorney General because the people of Illinois deserve a state government that works for them, not the powerful.”
Harold graduated from the University of Illinois in 2001 and from Harvard Law School in 2007.
She was considered for the 13th Illinois Congressional District seat, now occupied by Rodney Davis, in 2012. She ran against Davis in the 2014 republican primary, and lost.
She also served as a delegate for the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Harold serves on the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Equality, and as a Commissioner on the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism.
Harold is a member of Trinity International University’s Board of Regents, and serves on the national board of directors of Prison Fellowship, the world’s largest outreach to prisoners and their families, advocating for criminal justice reform.
She was also recently selected to the 2017 Emerging Lawyers list.
