Keith is running for Attorney General to be the People’s Lawyer – an advocate for all of us in Rhode Island who need someone in our corner.
From Day One, he will be ready to fight to make our state safer, stronger, and fairer.
The son of Bill, a doctor who served in the Vietnam War, and Robin, an educator for more than 30 years, Keith Hoffmann was born at Newport Hospital and raised in Portsmouth. When Keith was 13, his father died from cancer linked to the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam. After that, his mother raised three teenagers alone with the support of friends and neighbors. From his parents, Keith learned perseverance, the value of public service, and the strength of community.
Keith attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned his law degree with honors from Fordham Law School. Keith and his wife, Rachel, a physician at Brown, have two sons, Elijah and Daniel, who love exploring playgrounds across Rhode Island.
Keith’s commitment to public service began early. After law school he served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by the law firm Latham & Watkins, and led a team of attorneys at LegalHealth fighting to ensure New York City veterans had access to health care and housing. After Rachel completed her medical training, they returned home to Rhode Island, where Keith began serving in the Attorney General’s office, ultimately leading teams of lawyers as a unit chief and then serving on Attorney General Neronha’s executive leadership team
With experience serving under two attorneys general, Keith has led significant investigations and cases across the civil and criminal divisions.
He has fought to protect us from wrongdoers, and upheld the rule of law.
Keith served as a senior leader in the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office working closely with Attorney General Peter Neronha, where he helped build the state’s Public Protection Bureau, worked to expand access to health care, and stood up to the Trump Administration’s extremism and unconstitutional actions harming our state.
He served as counsel to the Rhode Island Police Officers Commission on Standards and Training, launching an expanded statewide police training program on civil rights and hate crimes. He advised the state on the allocation of opioid lawsuit settlement funds, fought for children suffering from lead poisoning, worked to secure more than $40 million in funding for primary health care, and successfully defended Rhode Island's landmark gun safety laws.
He held corporations accountable for consumer abuses, and worked hand-in-hand with community leaders building coalitions to pass critical public health and safety reforms. And when the Trump Administration broke the law, Keith helped lead the fight to successfully protect our public health, transportation funding, libraries, and other vital public institutions.
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