Kelly Ayotte

As Attorney General, Ayotte has fought to keep our children safe and our public officials honest. She led efforts to pass tough new laws to crack down on sexual and internet predators. Kelly also vigorously pursued the prosecution of white collar crimes and public corruption regardless of a person's political party.

The Manchester Union Leader named Ayotte Citizen of the Year in 2008 for her successful prosecutions of the first capital murder cases in New Hampshire in over 60 years. Additionally, New Hampshire Business Magazine named her one of the ten most powerful people in New Hampshire, and New Hampshire Magazine named her one of the State's remarkable women.

Ayotte has had a distinguished career in public service. She served as the Deputy Attorney General and Chief of the Homicide Unit where she led the prosecution of numerous murder cases including the successful prosecution of two defendants for the brutal murders of two Dartmouth professors.

As a product of New Hampshire's public schools, Kelly went on to graduate from Pennsylvania State University (with honors) in 1990 with a B.A. in Political Science and graduated from the Villanova University School of Law in 1993, where she served as Executive Editor of the Environmental Law Journal. Ms. Ayotte spent one year as a law clerk to the Honorable Sherman D. Horton, Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Kelly's husband, Joe, is an Iraq war veteran who currently serves in the Air National Guard. On the home front, Kelly worked side-by-side with Joe to create a landscape and snow removal company. She understands the importance of small businesses to the New Hampshire economy and the direct impact fiscal decisions made in Washington can have on small businesses and the jobs they create.

Kelly lives with her husband, five year old daughter Katherine, and two year old son Jacob in Nashua.