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
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