HUNTSVILLE — Katherine Robertson, chief counsel to the Alabama attorney general, says her decade inside the office is the driving force behind her campaign to become the state’s next attorney general.
She spoke to 256 Today on a recent stop on Huntsville.
Robertson, who has served as chief counsel for nearly 10 years, said she entered the race after evaluating what the office will need once Attorney General Steve Marshall departs. He is running for U.S. Senate to succeed Sen. Tommy Tuberville who is running for governor.
“Since my boss can’t run again, I just started looking at where the office was heading and wanting to keep it heading in the same direction, I decided to throw my name into the mix and [I’m] excited about it,” Robertson said. “I think we need continuity in the office so long as we’re doing a good job. And so I offer myself to the folks.”
If elected, Robertson said her priorities would be “to continue doing what we’re doing, but better.”
“Our mission is to make the state safer [and] the country freer,” she said. “And as long as it fits into that, then we go full speed in that direction.”
One of Robertson’s primary opponents, St. Clair County Circuit Judge Pamela Casey, has emphasized her prosecution background on the campaign trail and has said she is the only candidate with “real prosecution experience.”
Robertson pushed back on that argument.
“Yeah, well, I’m not running for district attorney. She’s correct,” Robertson said. “I’m running to run the attorney general’s office, which does an array of litigation from criminal trials all the way to constitutional defense and so on. So I’ve got the diversity of practice here.
“I’m not running as a prosecutor. I’m running as chief counsel. The AG [has] seen a little bit of everything, weathered a lot of storms, and [I] think I have the savvy to continue doing the job well.”
Robertson has already secured a long list of endorsements, which she says reflects the relationships she has built over two decades in public policy and law.
“I wouldn’t have gotten into the race if I didn’t think I had a pretty good group of friends out there that have watched my career since it began in D.C. 20 years ago and in Alabama 12 years ago,” she said. “From my time for Sen. Jeff Sessions to the Alabama Policy Institute, till now, I think there are a lot of people that believe in what I’m offering the people and have seen my track record and are willing to support me and I appreciate it so much.”
Asked about another candidate, former Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice Jay Mitchell, Robertson declined to weigh in.
“I really don’t want to talk about my opponents,” she said. “I like talking about myself and my track record and what I’m bringing to the table here. No one else in this race has run the AG’s office before.
“No one else has fought the fights that we have. And so I feel really good about my message and I just want to stay focused on that.”
The GOP primary is May 19, 2026.
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