Robert Marion "Rob" McKenna is the Republican Attorney General of Washington and was elected in November 2004 for a term beginning in January 2005. He won re-election in November 2008 with over 59 percent statewide. He is a 2012 candidate for Governor of Washington. McKenna is an Eagle Scout, was student body president at the University of Washington, and attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he was on the law review. McKenna was born in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the son of Bonnie Jean and Robert Elliott McKenna, an Army officer. His ancestry includes Irish, Norwegian, and... German. He grew up at posts in Germany, Bangkok , San Francisco and Kansas before his family settled in Bellevue, Washington when he was 14. He graduated from Sammamish High School in Bellevue in 1980. He earned two bachelor's degrees, in Economics and International Studies, from the University of Washington and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was student body president in 1984–85. He received a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1988.
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