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Jason Miyares

Jason Stuart Miyares (born February 11, 1976) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 48th attorney general of Virginia from 2022 to 2026. He is currently affiliated with the Torridon Group, a boutique strategic advisory firm founded by former U.S. attorney general William Barr. A member of the Republican Party, Miyares previously served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates for the 82nd district from 2016 to 2022.

Miyares was elected as attorney general in 2021, defeating Democratic incumbent Mark Herring. The son of a Cuban immigrant, Miyares was the first Hispanic American elected statewide in Virginia as well as the first to serve as attorney general in the Commonwealth. He lost reelection to Democrat Jay Jones in 2025.

Miyares was born on February 11, 1976, in Greensboro, North Carolina. He attended public schools in Virginia Beach. His mother, Miriam Miyares, fled from Cuba in 1965. His brothers are Bryan Redding, a commercial cinematographer and the late Steven Marcus Miyares, a Virginia criminal defense attorney.

Miyares graduated from James Madison University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and from William & Mary Law School in 2005 with a Juris Doctor degree. He was Chairman of the Hampton Roads Young Republicans and a founding member of the Hampton Roads Federalist Society. He later served as an assistant commonwealth's attorney in Virginia Beach.

Miyares worked on George Allen's 2000 Senate campaign. He was campaign manager and advisor to Republican Scott Rigell in the 2010 and 2012 congressional elections. Miyares worked as a prosecutor in the Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney's Office. He was later a partner with the consulting firm Madison Strategies. He also worked at the Virginia Beach law firm Hanger Law until his election to the office of Attorney General.

In 2015, Miyares ran for the Virginia House of Delegates' seat being vacated by Bill DeSteph, who ran successfully for the Virginia State Senate. Unopposed in the June 2015 Republican primary, he defeated Democrat Bill Fleming in the November 2015 general election. He was the first Cuban American elected to the Virginia General Assembly. He was reelected in 2017 and 2019. He served on three committees: General Laws, Courts of Justice, and Transportation. Miyares also served on the Virginia Board of Veterans Services and as Chairman of the Commission on Equal Opportunity for Virginians in Aspiring and Diverse Communities. Miyares was the 2018 and 2019 "Legislator of the Year" by the College of Affordability and Public Trust and 2018 "Legislator of the Year" by the Hampton Roads Military Officers Association. In 2019, he received the "Action Award" by the Safe House Project.

He endorsed Marco Rubio in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, and was Rubio's Virginia campaign co-chairman. In 2016, amid the Cuban thaw, Miyares criticized Governor Terry McAuliffe's outreach to Cuba. Miyares introduced a non-binding resolution (H.J. 1777) in 2016 condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.[better source needed]

In November 2018, an amendment proposal from Miyares was placed into the Constitution of Virginia that allows spouses of veterans with disabilities who have died to receive a full property tax exemption on the home they live in if they choose to relocate. In August 2019, Miyares offered HB 4031, a red flag law bill. Miyares believes his "bill has a balance of due process and constitutional rights while keeping guns out of the hands of those who can be dangerous due to mental health." In October 2019, Miyares said he planned to reintroduce "legislation that would allow the state to work directly with the Army Corps of Engineers on large flooding mitigation projects."

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