With one week until the Republican primary, attorney general candidate Katherine Robertson is making her closing argument to voters, and she’s leading with her record.
Robertson began airing a new television ad Tuesday highlighting her decade-long career in the attorney general’s office, where she authored two significant pieces of legislation. The Alabama Criminal Enterprise and Prevention Act, which she calls the toughest gang law in the country, significantly increases prison time for felony crimes committed under a criminal enterprise, with no parole or early release eligibility.
She also authored the Deputy Brad Johnson Act, which blocks early “good time” credits for violent felons. The bill is named after a Bibb County deputy killed by an inmate who was wrongly released under the previous system.
“We passed the toughest gang law in the country, made violent criminals serve longer sentences, and protected victims’ rights,” Robertson says in the ad. “Sheriffs across the state from Huntsville to Mobile have endorsed me. They’ve worked with me for ten years, and they know that I will always have their backs.”
Robertson has received endorsements from 25 of Alabama’s 67 county sheriffs, along with Hoover Police Chief Clay Morris, Hoover Mayor Nick Derzis, and the Professional Fire Fighters Association of Alabama.
She faces former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell and Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey in the May 19 Republican primary.

