Governor Tom Wolf from Harrisburg, PA · CC BY 2.0

As Pennsylvania's attorney general, Shapiro released a 2018 grand jury report documenting decades of child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy and its cover-up by church leadership, and helped negotiate a $1 billion state settlement in the national opioid litigation. He was elected governor of Pennsylvania in 2022, succeeding Tom Wolf, after earlier serving on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, where his 2011 election ended decades of Republican control there.