Republican Katherine Robertson has secured the Alabama Forestry Association's endorsement in her bid to become the state's next attorney general.
Robertson has been chief counsel for the Attorney General's Office for nearly 10 years and has previously served as vice president of the Alabama Policy Institute. She was a clerk and counsel to U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
"I have known Katherine since early on in her career when she worked with Senator Sessions and over the course of that friendship, I have come to deeply respect her intellect and tenacity and commitment to the integrity of the values she learned from growing up in rural Alabama," said AFA president & CEO Chris Isaacson.
Isaacson called the Selma native "uniquely qualified" for the position, given her knowledge of forestry issues.
"Our members have had the pleasure of watching and participating in her career and recognize that her understanding of issues critical to forestry makes her uniquely qualified for this important next step," he said.
"Her participation in the state's fight to reign in the overreach of the Federal Government, whether it was the proposed listing of the dusky gopher frog or curbing the onslaught of COVID mandates, is appreciated and we are proud to support her as she seeks to be Alabama's next Attorney General," added Isaacson.
Robertson praised the AFA and thanked the group for its show of support.
"I couldn't be prouder to receive the endorsement of the Alabama Forestry Association in my campaign for Attorney General," said Robertson. "As a daughter of the Black Belt and with family roots in forestry, my relationship with foresters has always been extra special."
According to Robertson, a "shared commitment" unites her campaign with the organization.
"But it's not just our shared love of the woods that is meaningful, it's our shared commitment to protecting the private property rights of Alabamians and further ensuring that government does not deprive landowners here—like my family—from utilizing their forestland the way that they see fit," Robertson articulated. "During my tenure at the Alabama Attorney General's Office, we have played a consequential role in thwarting federal overreach into private property use."
"The Alabama Forestry Association knows what they're getting with my leadership—they know that I have no plans of slowing down," she concluded.
The primary election for the state's top law enforcement official will be held on May 19, 2026.
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