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{{short description|17th Attorney General of Washington}}
{{about|the Attorney General for Washington|the character from ''The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy''|List of minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters#Rob McKenna}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Rob McKenna
|image        = Robmckenna2025.png
|caption      = McKenna in 2025
|office       = 17th [[Attorney General of Washington]]
|governor     = Christine Gregoire
|term_start   = January 12, 2005
|term_end     = January 16, 2013
|predecessor  = [[Christine Gregoire]]
|successor    = [[Bob Ferguson (politician)|Bob Ferguson]]
|office1      = Member of the [[King County Council]]<br/>from the 6th district
|term_start1  = January 1, 1996
|term_end1    = January 12, 2005
|predecessor1 = Bruce Laing
|successor1   = [[Reagan Dunn]]
|birth_name   = Robert Marion McKenna
|birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1962|10|1}}
|birth_place  = {{nowrap|[[Fort Sam Houston]], [[Texas]], U.S.}}
|death_date   = 
|death_place  = 
|party        = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|spouse       = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Marilyn McKenna|1986|2016|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Amy McKenna|2020}}}}
|children     = 4
|education    = [[University of Washington]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br/>[[University of Chicago]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
}}
'''Robert Marion McKenna''' (born October 1, 1962)<ref>Texas Births, 1903–1997, Ancestry.com</ref> is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 17th [[Attorney General of Washington|attorney general of Washington]] from 2005 to 2013 after serving on the Metropolitan King County Council from 1996 to 2005. A member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], he ran for [[Governor of Washington]] in [[2012 Washington gubernatorial election|2012]], losing to [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Jay Inslee]].

McKenna is an [[Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)|Eagle Scout]], was student body president at the [[University of Washington]], and attended the [[University of Chicago Law School]], where he was on the law review.<ref name="bio1">{{cite web|title=About Rob McKenna |url=http://www.atg.wa.gov/page.aspx?ID=1730 |accessdate=July 29, 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807121910/http://www.atg.wa.gov/page.aspx?ID=1730 |archivedate=August 7, 2007 }}</ref> He currently is a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in [[Seattle]] where he represents a wide range of technology and other companies in matters involving cyber security, data privacy, litigation, appellate litigation, regulatory proceedings, state attorney general investigations, and legislative issues.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.orrick.com/People/0/9/D/Robert-McKenna |title=Rob McKenna |website=Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP}}</ref>

As of 2024, he is the most recent Republican to serve as [[Attorney General of Washington]].