In 2004, Tom Corbett was elected to serve as Pennsylvania’s chief law enforcement officer, the Attorney General. In November 2008 he won reelection in a decisive fashion, drawing strong bipartisan support for the office’s ongoing mission to make this Commonwealth a safer better place for families to live, work and raise a family. When first running for the office, Corbett identified four pressing problems threatening Pennsylvania’s communities.

Once elected, Attorney General Corbett quickly addressed these issues by developing and creating the following programs:

    1.) a Child Predator Unit to capture Internet predators before they have a chance to prey on our children, with 236 convicted to date;

    2.) an Elder Abuse Unit to protect our senior citizens from fraud and abuse;

    3.) a Public Corruption Unit to protect citizens from abuse of power and government corruption; and

    4.) a dedicated commitment to fight the war on illegal drugs and gangs in our neighborhoods and to halt drug trafficking in our communities.

Tom Corbett’s experience as a criminal prosecutor began in Allegheny County as Assistant District Attorney. President Ronald Reagan appointed Corbett to be Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of PA and named him one of the first members of President Reagan’s National Drug Task Force. Following several years of private law practice, President George H. W. Bush appointed Corbett to become the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. In 1995, Governor Tom Ridge selected Tom Corbett to fill the vacancy in the Attorney General’s office for the duration of the term. It was not until 2004 that Corbett ran statewide for Attorney General and won both highly contested primary and general election races.

Recognized as a national leader on his balanced approach to business, Attorney General Corbett has been featured on the cover of CFO magazine. Corbett was a leader of the northeast Attorneys General through his association with the National Association of Attorneys General. He served as Chairman of the Republican Association of Attorneys General and sits on the Attorney General of the United States’ Executive Working Group, an elite group of law enforcement officials from throughout the nation. Attorney General Corbett served his country as a member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard 28th Infantry Division, rising in rank from private to captain. Corbett received his undergraduate degree from Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania; and earned his law degree at St. Mary’s University Law School in San Antonio, Texas. A life-long Pennsylvania resident, Tom married his college sweetheart, Susan. They are the proud parents of two children: Tom, a student of entertainment technology at Carnegie Mellon University and Katherine, a prosecutor in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office.