# Catherine Hanaway Attorney General of Missouri. In that office she filed *State of Missouri v. United States Department of Commerce* on January 30, 2026, the suit seeking to bar counting people without lawful status and temporary visa holders in congressional apportionment and to have the 2020 count redone. See [[Missouri v. Department of Commerce]]. A former Speaker of the Missouri House and former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. This page is a stub covering her role in the census litigation; her wider career and prior offices are not yet written up.