Lynn Fitch
Lynn Fitch | |
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Treasurer of Mississippi | |
In office January 5, 2012 – January 14, 2020 | |
Governor | Phil Bryant |
Preceded by | Tate Reeves |
Succeeded by | David McRae |
Personal details | |
Born | Holly Springs, Mississippi, U.S. | October 5, 1961
Political party | Republican |
Education | University of Mississippi (BA, JD) |
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Lynn Fitch (born October 5, 1961) is an American lawyer, politician, and the 40th
As Attorney General of Mississippi, she has been part of legal efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In 2023, she declined to defend Mississippi's longstanding state law on vaccination requirements.
Personal life and early career
Fitch is a native of Marshall County, Mississippi, and grew up in Holly Springs, Mississippi.[1][2] She attended University of Mississippi and in five years earned a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Juris Doctor.[2] She began practicing law at 23 on the staff of Attorney General Ed Pittman.[2]
Fitch has worked as a bond lawyer, counsel for the
Fitch is married with two daughters and one son and lives in Madison, Mississippi.[2]
Political career
State Treasurer of Mississippi
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Mississippi Attorney General
Fitch announced her candidacy for
After Joe Biden won the 2020 election and Donald Trump refused to concede while he and his allies made claims of fraud, Fitch joined in the lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election.[13]
In 2021, in
In 2023, Fitch declined to defend Mississippi's long-standing vaccination requirements against lawsuits by anti-vaccine groups. Mississippi's vaccine requirements had resulted in one of the highest vaccination rates in the United States, with 99% of kindergarteners being immunized. It is rare for an Attorney General to decline to defend a state law.[24]
Electoral history
Mississippi Treasurer Republican Primary Election, 2011 | |||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
Republican | Lynn Fitch | 104,287 | 37.65 |
Republican | Lee Yancey | 92,653 | 33.45 |
Republican | Lucien Smith | 80,054 | 28.90 |
Mississippi Treasurer Republican Primary Runoff Election, 2011 | |||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
Republican | Lynn Fitch | 82,930 | 53.16 |
Republican | Lee Yancey | 73,076 | 46.84 |
Mississippi Treasurer Election, 2011 | |||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
Republican | Lynn Fitch | 513,132 | 58.79 |
Democratic | Connie Moran | 333,267 | 38.18 |
Reform | Shawn O'Hara | 26,421 | 3.03 |
Mississippi Treasurer Republican Primary Election, 2015 | |||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
Republican | Lynn Fitch (inc.) | 154,492 | 57.67 |
Republican | David McRae | 113,411 | 42.33 |
Mississippi Treasurer Election, 2015 | |||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
Republican | Lynn Fitch (inc.) | 511,465 | 79.24 |
Reform | Viola McFarland | 134,014 | 20.76 |
References
- ^ a b Kitchener, Caroline. "The woman who could bring down Roe v. Wade". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Mississippi Treasurer Lynn Fitch". Mississippi State Treasurer. January 5, 2012. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012.
- ^ "Attorney General Lynn Fitch". Mississippi Attorney General. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
- ^ "Lynn Fitch launchers statewide campaign for state treasurer". Magnolia Tribune. February 15, 2011. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
- ^ a b Pettus, Emily Wagster (July 4, 2011). "Mississippi voters to choose new treasurer as Tate Reeves tries for lieutenant governor". gulflive. Associated Press. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
- ^ "DuPree, Fitch win runoffs; Several new faces in coast districts". WLOX. August 24, 2011. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
- ^ "Official Tabulation of Vote for State Office of Treasurer" (PDF). Mississippi Secretary of State. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
- ^ Fowler, Sarah (May 15, 2018). "Lynn Fitch to run for attorney general". The Clarion Ledger. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- ^ Pettus, Emily Wagster (August 28, 2019). "Fitch wins GOP nomination for Mississippi attorney general". AP News. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
- ^ Gates, Jimmie E. "Lynn Fitch elected Mississippi's first female attorney general". The Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
- ^ "Lynn Fitch". Republican Attorneys General Association. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
- ^ Pettus, Emily Wagster (January 10, 2020). "7 of 8 statewide officials inaugurated". The Greenwood Commonwealth. Associated Press. pp. 1, 12.
- ^ Harrison, Bobby (December 11, 2020). "Several Mississippi Republicans seek to throw out millions of ballots". Mississippi Today. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
- ^ de Vogue, Ariane (July 22, 2021). "Mississippi asks US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade". CNN.
- ^ a b Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison, Attorney General Lynn Fitch paying outside law, PR firms for fight against abortion, Mississippi Today (December 2, 2021).
- ^ Giulia Heyward, Scott Stewart, the lawyer representing Mississippi, was at the center of a 2017 abortion controversy., New York Times (December 1, 2021).
- ^ "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization - Attorney General Lynn Fitch". www.ago.state.ms.us. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
- ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
- ^ Fitch, Lynn. "Mississippi supports protecting life at 15 weeks. Give abortion debate back to the people". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
- ^ "Pregnancy no longer halts a woman's career, and our thinking about abortion must catch up". Dallas News. 2021-09-19. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
- ^ Lynn Fitch and Monica Sparks, opinion contributors (2021-09-18). "Caring for the whole life and the whole woman is hard, but right". The Hill. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
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