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'''Attorney General of Jamaica''' is the chief law officer in [[Jamaica]].

Section 79(1) of the [[Jamaica#Government_and_politics|Constitution of Jamaica]] states that "there shall be an Attorney General who shall be the principal legal adviser to the Government of Jamaica" and pursuant to the Crown Proceedings Act all civil proceedings by or against the Government are instituted in the name of the Attorney General.<ref>[http://www.moj.gov.jm/pdf/agc.pdf The Attorney General Chambers] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709223907/http://www.moj.gov.jm/pdf/agc.pdf |date=9 July 2007 }} accessed 26 December 2008</ref>

==List of attorneys general of Jamaica==
:''Main Source'': <ref> {{cite web|url = https://archive.org/stream/cu31924020417527/cu31924020417527_djvu.txt| title= Historic Jamaica|access-date = 2013-02-27}} </ref>

===1655 English/British Colony===
*Edmund Ducke 1671
*John Wright 1685
*Sir Richard Dereham 1688
*Simon Musgrave 1686–1691
*[[William Brodrick (politician)]], brother of [[Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton]], ([[Lord Chancellor of Ireland]]) 1693
*Thomas Barrow 1698
*Edward Haskins 1703
*Robert Hotchkyn 1707<ref>[http://www.nlj.org.jm/place_names.htm Place Names] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129061950/http://www.nlj.org.jm/place_names.htm |date=29 January 2009 }}, National Library of Jamaica, accessed 26 December 2008</ref>
*William Brodrick 1711–1715
*Edmund Kelly 1719
*William Monk 1724
*Alexander Henderson 1732
*Thomas Howe 1732
*[[Matthew Concanen]] 1732–1744
*Andrew Arcedeckne 1734
*Thomas Hill 1744
*Robert Penny 1744–1749
*Henry Morgan Byndloss 1754
*Richard Beckford 1755
*Gilbert Ford 1760
*Edward Penny 1760
*Thomas Gordon 1766
*Thomas Beach 1766
*Thomas Harrison 1769
*[[Robert Sewell (lawyer)|Robert Sewell]], 1784
*George Crawford Ricketts 1796
*William Ross 1802
*Thomas Witter Jackson 1808-1818
*[[William Burge]] 1818–1829
*[[Hugo James]] 1829
*Fitzherbert Batty 1832
*Dowell O'Reilly 1833–1855
*Alexander Heslop 1857–1866 <ref>''The Legal Observer, and Solicitors' Journal'', Saturday 15 November 1855</ref> (1855–?)

*''1866 British Crown Colony''

*Ernest Alexander Clendinning Schalch 1872 (died 1874)
*George Hurley Barne 1876
*(Sir) [[Edward Loughlin O'Malley]] 1876–1880
*Sir [[Henry Hicks Hocking]] 1881–c.1895
*(Sir) [[Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles]] 1896–1905
*Thomas Bancroft Oughton 1906–
*[[St John Branch|Ernest St. John Branch]] 1910–
*Frederick Chester Wells Durrant 1921–1932 <ref> The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers </ref>
*Maurice Vivian Camacho ?1932–1938
*[[Arthur Werner Lewey]] c.1938–
*T. Henry Mayers c.1944
*[[Joseph Leslie Cundall]] 1952–?1962

===1962 Independent Commonwealth realm===
*Victor B. Grant, 1962–1972
*Leacroft Robinson, 1972–1976 <ref name=PAG> {{cite web|url=http://agc.gov.jm/previous-attorneys-general-solicitors-general/|title=Past Attorneys General|publisher=Attorney General's Chambers (of Jamaica)|access-date=26 July 2017}} </ref>
*[[Carl Rattray|Raphael Carl Rattray]], 1976–1980 <ref name= PAG/>
*Winston Spaulding, 1980–1986  <ref name= PAG/>
*[[Oswald Harding]], 1986–1989 <ref name= PAG/>
*[[Carl Rattray|Raphael Carl Rattray]], 1989–1993 <ref name= PAG/>
*David Coore, 1993–1995 <ref name= PAG/>
*[[Arnold Joseph Nicholson]], 1995–2007  <ref name= PAG/>
*[[Dorothy Lightbourne]], 2007–2011
*[[Ransford Braham]], 2011–2012<ref>{{cite web|title=Braham new attorney general|url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Ransford-Braham-new-attorney-general_9148745|publisher=Jamaican Observer}}</ref>
*[[Patrick Atkinson (Jamaican politician)|Patrick Atkinson]], 2012–2016<ref>{{cite web|title=Atkinson Promises Fairness|url=http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=34465|publisher=Go-Jamaican}}</ref>
*[[Marlene Malahoo Forte]], 2016-2022<ref> {{cite web|url=http://moj.gov.jm/content/attorney-general-marlene-malahoo-forte-mp-qc-jp|title=Attorney General - Marlene Malahoo Forte, MP, QC, JP|publisher=Ministry of Justice (of Jamaica)|access-date= 26 July 2017}} </ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/News/Women-welcome-appointment-to-executive-_53976|title=Women welcome appointment to executive|last1=Carter|first1=Jediael|date=9 March 2016|work=[[The Jamaica Observer]]|access-date=22 March 2016}}</ref><ref name="Gleaner1">{{cite web|date=10 January 2022|title=Dr Derrick McKoy appointed Attorney General|url=https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20220110/dr-derrick-mckoy-appointed-attorney-general|access-date=11 January 2022|website=[[The Gleaner]]|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Derrick McKoy]], 2022–present<ref name="Gleaner1" />

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