Former U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway was appointed Tuesday as Missouri's next attorney general, vowing a tough-on-crime approach as her predecessor leaves for a job with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Trump administration has named Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to a new post of co-deputy director of the FBI alongside Dan Bongino. Bongino, who shared the report on X with the caption "Welcome,

Gov. Kehoe appoints Catherine Hanaway as the first women Missouri Attorney General. She replaces Andrew Bailey as he heads to Washington, DC, to serve as co-deputy director of the FBI. Hanaway was a U.S. district prosecutor near St. Louis #moleg pic.twitter.com/Ne8ukHnbeU