The Alabama Forestry Association announced Wednesday its endorsement of Katherine Robertson for attorney general of Alabama.
Robertson currently serves as the chief counsel for the office of the Alabama Attorney General. She has served in this role for nearly a decade. She previously served as the vice president of the Alabama Policy Institute and as a clerk and counsel to U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
“I have known Katherine since early on in her career when she worked with Senator Sessions and over the course of that friendship, I have come to deeply respect her intellect and tenacity and commitment to the integrity of the values she learned from growing up in rural Alabama,” said AFA President and CEO Chris Isaacson.
“Our members have had the pleasure of watching and participating in her career and recognize that her understanding of issues critical to forestry makes her uniquely qualified for this important next step. Her participation in the state’s fight to reign in the overreach of the Federal Government, whether it was the proposed listing of the dusky gopher frog or curbing the onslaught of COVID mandates, is appreciated and we are proud to support her as she seeks to be Alabama’s next Attorney General,” Isaacson stated.
“I couldn’t be prouder to receive the endorsement of the Alabama Forestry Association in my campaign for Attorney General,” said Robertson. “As a daughter of the Black Belt and with family roots in forestry, my relationship with foresters has always been extra special. But it’s not just our shared love of the woods that is meaningful, it’s our shared commitment to protecting the private property rights of Alabamians and further ensuring that government does not deprive landowners here—like my family—from utilizing their forestland the way that they see fit. During my tenure at the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, we have played a consequential role in thwarting federal overreach into private property use. The Alabama Forestry Association knows what they’re getting with my leadership—they know that I have no plans of slowing down.”
Robertson and her husband, Ryan, have two children and live in Birmingham.
The primary election will be held on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.
