Karl Racine Democratic Brian Schwalb Democratic The 2022 District of Columbia Attorney General election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the next attorney general for the District of Columbia.

Incumbent attorney general Karl Racine had declined to run for reelection.

In late March 2022, candidate Bruce Spiva filed a challenge with the Board of Elections in which he claimed frontrunner Kenyan McDuffie was ineligible to run for the position.

The challenge said that McDuffie did not spend at least five of the previous ten years actively engaged as an attorney.

[2] On April 18, the Board of Elections upheld Spiva's challenge, and ruled that McDuffie was ineligible to run for the office.