Jennifer Davenport (born 1974/1975) is an American attorney who has served as the Attorney General of New Jersey since 2026.
Background A native of Cape May County, New Jersey, Davenport attended DeSales University as an undergraduate and earned her Juris Doctor degree from the Seton Hall University School of Law. She was a law clerk for Judge John Winslow Bissell of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Career Davenport was an associate at Latham & Watkins and Squire Patton Boggs. She then worked as a prosecutor, including as an assistant United States attorney, as New Jersey division counsel in the Drug Enforcement Administration, and as First Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey. She then returned to private practice, becoming deputy general counsel for the Public Service Enterprise Group in 2022.
New Jersey Attorney General On December 14, 2025, Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill nominated Davenport to be New Jersey Attorney General. She served in an acting capacity from Sherrill's inauguration on January 20, 2026, to February 24, 2026, when she was unanimously confirmed to the post by the New Jersey Senate.
Delaney Hall
Davenport has played a role in the state's arrests of protesters during the 2026 Delaney Hall protests. At a May 29, 2026 press conference, she said:
Later that day, Governor Sherrill ordered New Jersey State Police (NJSP), in collaboration with the Newark Police Department (NPD) and ICE, to take over operations outside Delaney Hall for ICE and establish a "peaceful, protected protest zone" for protesters to go inside in an attempt to "cool things down." The protest zone created by police was a 600-yard (550 meter) enclosure outside the facility consisting of orange interlinked metal bicycle parking rack fences and concrete blocks. The protest zone was characterized by some protesters and journalists as a cage.
A police officer later allegedly stole a journalist's camera equipment at the protests. Davenport publicly announced criminal charges were being made against the officer allegedly responsible for the alleged theft.
Personal life , Davenport lives in Monmouth County, New Jersey. She has two daughters.
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