Former U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway has been appointed as Missouri's next attorney general. She takes over from Andrew Bailey, who is leaving for a position with the FBI.

Less than 24 hours after Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced he was resigning to join the Trump administration. Gov. Mike Kehoe selected Hanaway, who was also the first woman to serve as Missouri House Speaker,

The move appears to diminish the authority of the current deputy director, Dan Bongino, whose tumultuous tenure has included a pitched argument over files related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.