Alvin Bragg Wife: Meet Jamila Marie Ponton

Alvin Leonard Bragg Jr. was born on October 21, 1973, and is an American politician and lawyer from New York State who is serving as the New York County District Attorney.

In 2021, he became the first African American and the first person of color elected to that office.

Bragg previously served as chief deputy attorney general of New York and as an assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.

Bragg is from Harlem and grew up on Striver’s Row. In an interview with The American Prospect, Bragg noted that he had been “deeply affected by the criminal justice system – most directly through three gunpoint stops by the NYPD.”

He graduated from the Trinity School before attending Harvard College. He graduated from Harvard cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1995 and earned his Juris

A doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review.

Alvin Bragg Wife: Meet Jamila Marie Ponton

Bragg is married to Jamila Marie Ponton. They have been blessed with two children.