ever. barbara underwood took over. she held down the fort after the schneiderman scandal. in the next election it was letitia james, tish james who ran for the job outright and ran by a mile. she won by a more than 25-point landslide. underwood had been appointed to the job in the immediate wake of schneiderman's scandal. that made her technically the first acting attorney general of the state of new york. tish james was the first woman ever elected to the gig. and she also turned that job into a nonstop headline generating machine. as attorney general of new york tish james sued the nra, leading the almost indescribably influential and powerful gun lobby to declare bankruptcy and flee the state. right now she's leading a big multi-state lawsuit against the almost unimaginably influential