For the last five years, Natalie Ludaway served as the chief deputy attorney general for the District of Columbia, taking a leading role in building the office into an agency on par with the best state attorneys general. (With admiration, Ludaway labels those who holds the roles as “the people’s lawyers.”)

It was a time when state attorneys general nationwide were flexing their muscles as never before, filling the litigation gaps left by the Trump administration’s deregulation juggernaut.