Attorney General of Michigan
Eli Savit
CandidateD
- Race
- Attorney General of Michigan
- Election
- 2026-11-03
- Opponents
- Doug Lloyd (R); Jeff Polonowski (G); Jason Dye (LIB); Doug Dern (Natural Law); John Perry Ludtke Jr. (U.S. Taxpayers)
- Research
- Basic
Party linenone
No recorded floor votes — not a current legislator in our records.
Said vs. did1 statement · 0 votes
When Roe v. Wade was overturned, Eli personally litigated alongside Governor Whitmer to overturn Michigan’s antiquated abortion ban.
Protect legal access to abortion
Compare statements with votes ›On the ballotAttorney General
2026-11-03
| Eli Savit D | challenger |
| Doug Lloyd R | challenger |
| Jeff Polonowski G | challenger |
| Jason Dye LIB | challenger |
| Doug Dern Natural Law | challenger |
| John Perry Ludtke Jr. U.S. Taxpayers | challenger |
Democratic Party nominee; filed August 31, 2026 following the party convention (Michigan Bureau of Elections listing).
Said vs. did
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When Roe v. Wade was overturned, Eli personally litigated alongside Governor Whitmer to overturn Michigan’s antiquated abortion ban.
His campaign says he litigated alongside Governor Whitmer to overturn Michigan's abortion ban and led national coalitions of prosecutors advocating for abortion rights at the U.S. Supreme Court.[2]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
Biography
Eli Savit is the Democratic nominee for Michigan Attorney General and the Washtenaw County prosecuting attorney, elected in 2020. A former public school teacher, he clerked for Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg and served as senior legal counsel for the City of Detroit before his election as prosecutor.[1]
Basic profile — the most important sourced facts we found.
Savit was born and raised in Ann Arbor, the son of two educators.[1][3] He attended Kalamazoo College, where he played four years of college basketball, and then taught special-education and general-education 8th-grade U.S. history in a public school.[3] After graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, he worked for two federal judges and was then selected to clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justices O'Connor (ret.) and Ginsburg.[1][3]
Savit later became senior legal counsel for the City of Detroit, where his campaign says he oversaw the city's opioid-industry lawsuits and a right-to-literacy case on behalf of Detroit schoolchildren.[1] He was elected Washtenaw County prosecuting attorney in 2020.[1] The Michigan Democratic Party chose him as its attorney general nominee at its April 19, 2026 convention, where he won the nomination over Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald.[4]
On the record
Official actions: bills, executive acts, filings and court records.
- legalAs Washtenaw County prosecutor, filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit declaring a fraternity's culture of sexual assault a public nuisance after more than a dozen reported assaults; his campaign says the suit forced the fraternity's closure.[5]
- actionEstablished a stand-alone workers' and consumers' rights unit, a conviction integrity and expungement unit, and special-victims and domestic violence units in the Washtenaw County prosecutor's office, according to his campaign.[2][5]
In their own words
Priorities
- Prosecuting and preventing serious crime, including expanded capacity for sex crimes, domestic violence and child abuse cases and community programs to prevent gun violence.[5]
- Consumer and worker protection, including enforcement against wage theft, price gouging and deceptive practices.[5]
- Environmental enforcement against polluters and protection of constitutional and civil rights.[5]
Statements, quoted without a stance
- Stricter gun laws
“reforms geared towards keeping firearms out of the hands of dangerous individuals”[5]
From the issues page of his campaign website, which says he advocated for legislative changes of this kind and built community programs to prevent gun violence
Campaign moneyNo FEC filing summary matched — state candidates file with their state, not the FEC.
Profile: /people/eli-savit
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Sources cited in this profile
- 1.About Eli · Eli Savit for Attorney General Candidate's own words
- 2.About Eli · Eli Savit for Attorney General Candidate's own words
- 3.About Eli Savit · Eli Savit for Attorney General Candidate's own words
- 4.Michigan Democrats choose Lt. Gov. Gilchrist as secretary of state nominee, Eli Savit for AG · WILX · 2026-04-19 News report
- 5.Issues · Eli Savit for Attorney General Candidate's own words