Barbara Underwood is applauded at the state Legislature after her appointment as New York’s 66th Attorney General. Photo: Attorney General’s Office.
Lawmakers in Albany voted Tuesday to keep Barbara Underwood, the former state solicitor general and current acting attorney general, as the interim head of the Attorney General’s Office until a new attorney general is elected later this year.
In a statement, Underwood praised the “talent and dedication of the people” that make up the Attorney General’s Office. She called the decision by state legislators a “tremendous honor” for the “most important job I have ever had.”
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