Less than 24 hours after Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced he was resigning to join the Trump administration. Gov. Mike Kehoe selected Hanaway, who was also the first woman to serve as Missouri House Speaker,

Gov. Kehoe appoints Catherine Hanaway as the first women Missouri Attorney General. She replaces Andrew Bailey as he heads to Washington, DC, to serve as co-deputy director of the FBI. Hanaway was a U.S. district prosecutor near St. Louis #moleg pic.twitter.com/Ne8ukHnbeU

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe named Catherine Hanaway as the state’s next attorney general during a press conference Tuesday morning in Jefferson City.