Josh Stein Net Worth 2023, Age, Wife, Children, Height, Family, Parents, Salary

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Introduction

Josh Stein is an American lawyer and politician who serves as the 50th and current Attorney General of North Carolina, a position he has held since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Stein previously served as a member of the North Carolina Senate representing District 16, located Wake County. While a member of the North Carolina Senate, Stein announced in 2013 that he would run for re-election in 2014 and then for North Carolina Attorney General in 2016.

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Stein’s former boss, Attorney General Roy Cooper, successfully ran for Governor in 2016. Following his win in the Democratic primary, Stein resigned from his seat in the State Senate to focus on the race for Attorney General. Stein won the general election, defeating Republican Buck Newton. He was “the first Jew in North Carolina history to win a statewide election”. Stein was re-elected in 2020, defeating Republican Jim O’Neill. On January 18, 2023, Stein announced his campaign for Governor of North Carolina in 2024.

Early life

Name	Josh Stein
Net Worth	$5 million
Occupation	Lawyer, Politician
Age	56 years
Height	1.75m

Josh Stein net worth

Joshua Stein was born on September 13, 1966 (age 56 years) in Washington, D.C., United States. His parents then moved to Charlotte, North Carolina before settling in Chapel Hill. He attended Chapel Hill High School and played on its soccer team. His father, Adam Stein, co-founded North Carolina’s first integrated law firm and his mother is Jane Stein. He graduated from Chapel Hill High School and earned his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College. After college, he taught English and economics in Zimbabwe. Stein then went on to earn degrees from Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government.

Career

Josh Stein has worked for the Self-Help Credit Union in Durham and for the United States Senate. In the late 1990s he became an intern for State Representative Dan Blue. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper later appointed him Assistant Attorney General for Consumer Protection. From 2012 until 2016, he served as Of Counsel at Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP, a regional law firm.

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Stein also worked with the North Carolina Minority Support Center, raising capital to invest in small businesses, and InterAct, Wake County’s domestic violence prevention and care organization. Stein currently serves on the board of the Truth Initiative, America’s largest non-profit public health organization. He was sworn into office as a member of the North Carolina Senate on January 15, 2009. After being re-elected, he was elected minority whip by his colleagues in December 2010.

He sought and received additional funding to test North Carolina’s backlog of untested sexual assault kits as Attorney General. This led to new arrests in cases involving a 2015 assault and attempted murder in Durham, North Carolina; assaults in 2009 and 2010 in Fayetteville; and a 1993 assault in Winston-Salem, among others. Josh Stein is among the four state attorneys general negotiating a national settlement framework with drug companies over the nation’s opioid epidemic.

He helped finalize a settlement with the opioid manufacturer Mallinckrodt in which the company agreed to pay $1.6 billion for its role in the epidemic. In 2018, Stein filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court arguing in favor of the Affordable Care Act. In 2019, Stein became the first attorney general in the country to sue e-cigarette manufacturer JUUL for unlawful marketing to minors.

Josh Stein negotiated eight Anti-Robocall Principles with a bipartisan coalition of 51 attorneys general and 12 companies to protect phone users from illegal robocalls. He also launched Operation Silver Shield, an effort to protect older North Carolinians from fraud and scams. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stein won a preliminary injunction against a Charlotte tow company sued for price-gouging and announced the investigation of nine North Carolina-based sellers on Amazon who are accused of raising prices on coronavirus-related products, including hand sanitizer and N-95 masks.

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The Legislature voted to remove Josh Stein as their legal representation before the Courts on August 21, 2021, after he refused to appeal the findings of a lower court that a North Carolina state law that disenfranchised anyone convicted of a felony was unconstitutional. Stein cited he had been waiting for the ruling to be formally filed. Legislative leaders alleged Stein was “slow-walking” the case in order to allow felons to vote in the next election; claims used to justify his immediate removal.

Wife

Josh Stein is married to his wife Anna Harris Stein, they had their wedding in the United States. His wife is a private person and they have three children: Leah Stein, Adam Stein, and Sam Stein. As of 2023, Josh Stein and his wife Anna Harris Stein are still married and living a happy life with their children.