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The New Attorneys General THE NEW ATTORNEYS GENERAL ALABAMA served as vice-chair of the Education Committee. Attorney Luther Strange (R) General Horne brings 24 years of school board experience Prior to his election, Attorney as a member of the board of the third largest district in General Strange was an attorney the state. He received his undergraduate degree magna and founder of Strange LLC, a law cum laude from Harvard College and his J.D. with honors fi rm based in Birmingham. Prior from the Harvard Law School. to founding Strange LLC, he was a Attorney General Horne appointed Eric Bistrow as partner with the law fi rm of Bradley chief deputy and Margaret Garcia Dugan as chief of staff. Arant Boult Cummings LLP. Attorney STRANGE CALIFORNIA General Strange received both his Kamala Harris (D) undergraduate and law degrees from Tulane University. Attorney General Kamala Harris Active in his church and community, He is an Eagle Scout served two terms as district attorney and Rotarian and serves on the Advisory Board of the in San Francisco. First elected in United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, 2003, she was overwhelmingly New York. re-elected to a second term in Attorney General Strange appointed Richard Allen as November 2007. She graduated from chief deputy. Mr. Allen had previously served as chief Howard University, and then went to HARRIS deputy to Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor. the University of California, Hastings ALASKA College of the Law. After graduating from law school, she John Burns took a position in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Attorney General Burns was Offi ce, where she specialized in prosecuting child sexual appointed by Gov. Sean Parnell in assault cases. As a deputy district attorney she also December 2010. He received a prosecuted cases for homicide and robbery. She worked bachelor’s degree in history from the at that offi ce from 1990 to 1998 before going on to serve University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Offi ce. During her and a J.D. from the University of tenure as a district attorney, she was elected to the Board Puget Sound School of Law. He has of Directors of the California District Attorneys Association BURNS served as an adjunct faculty member and as vice president of the National District Attorneys at UAF, teaching graduate and undergraduate business Association. Attorney General Harris is the author of the law courses. Prior to establishing the law fi rm of Borgeson book, “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to & Burns in 1999, he worked for Birch Horton Bittner & Make Us Safer.” Cherot. Attorney General Burns is a member of the board Attorney General Harris appointed Matt Rodriquez of directors of Hospice of the Tanana Valley and serves on as chief deputy for legal affairs and Michael Troncoso as the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee for UAF. He is also a chief deputy for administration and policy. participant in the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization. CONNECTICUT Attorney General Burns appointed Jim Cantor as his George Jepsen (D) chief deputy. Elected in November 2010, George ARIZONA Jepsen took offi ce as Attorney Tom Horne (R) General on January 4, 2011. He is Prior to being elected as the Arizona a graduate of Dartmouth College, Attorney General in 2010, Tom and Harvard Law School, where he Horne was elected Arizona State graduated with honors and also earned a master’s degree in public Superintendent of Public Instruction JEPSEN in 2002, and was re-elected to a policy from the Kennedy School. To second four-year term in 2006. He help pay for his education, he worked as a teaching fellow served in the Arizona legislature in Constitutional Law for former Watergate prosecutor HORNE from 1996-2000, during which time Archibald Cox. Following graduation he went to work as he chaired the Academic Accountability Committee and staff counsel for the carpenters’ union (UBC Local 210) 4 THE NEW ATTORNEYS GENERAL for western Connecticut. Attorney General Jepsen served Board, and is a member of the Junior League Board of 16 years in the Connecticut General Assembly, fi rst as a Directors, and the University of Florida Gator Club Board state representative, and then as a state senator – the of Directors. last six as Majority Leader. Attorney General Bondi appointed Carlos Muniz as Attorney General Jepsen appointed Nora Dannehy as deputy attorney general. deputy attorney general. GEORGIA DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Sam Olens (R) Irvin Nathan Before being elected Attorney Irvin B. Nathan was nominated in General, Sam Olens previously December 2010 by the new mayor served as the chairman of the Cobb of Washington, D.C., Vincent Gray, County Board of Commissioners as the new Attorney General for the from August 2002 through March District of Columbia. He is serving as 2010. Previously he served as Cobb the acting Attorney General pending County District 3 commissioner from OLENS confi rmation by the City Council. Prior 1999 through June 2002. From NATHAN to his arrival at the Offi ce of Attorney December 2004 through 2009, he was chairman of the General, he was the general counsel of the U.S. House Atlanta Regional Commission. He was also vice chair of of Representatives, where he served from November the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District 2007 until January 2, 2011. For more than 30 years, he from 2005 through March 2010. Attorney General Olens practiced with the Washington, D.C. law fi rm of Arnold was appointed by Gov. Sonny Perdue to represent the and Porter, where he was a senior litigating partner and 6th Congressional District on Georgia’s Department of head of the fi rm’s white-collar criminal defense practice. Community Affairs Board in 2003 and served through He has served as a deputy assistant attorney general and 2010. He graduated from the Emory University School principal associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. of Law in 1983 and was a member of Ezor & Olens, P.C. Department of Justice. He also served as the vice chair of from 1983 through 2010. He is a registered mediator/ the Board of Professional Responsibility of the District of arbitrator with the Georgia Offi ce of Dispute Resolution. Columbia and as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Jeff Milsteen continues to serve as chief deputy. University Law Center and the University of San Diego Law GUAM School. He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University Law School. Lenny Rapadas Attorney General Rapadas is a FLORIDA graduate of Willamette University Pam Bondi (R) School of Law. Upon graduation Elected in 2010, Attorney General he served as an assistant attorney Pam Bondi is a graduate of the general in the Criminal Division of the University of Florida and Stetson Guam Attorney General’s Offi ce. He Law School. She served as a front- held the position of chief prosecutor RAPADAS line prosecutor for over 18 years. for three years. In 2003, he was Her investigative and courtroom appointed and confi rmed as U.S. Attorney for the Districts experience includes the successful of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands and served in BONDI prosecution of numerous fi rst- that position for seven years. While U.S. Attorney, he was degree murder cases and two capital cases. Attorney a member of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee General Bondi served as Felony Bureau chief and a key (AGAC), serving on the Border and Immigration Security, member of internal homicide, vehicular homicide, and Controlled Substances and Asset Forfeiture, Environment DUI manslaughter committees. She also served on the and Natural Resources, and Intellectual Property Sub- Executive Committee responsible for budget, personnel Committees, as well as the Military Issues Working Group. and legal strategies. Attorney General Bondi has served as He was elected as Guam Attorney General in November the vice chair of the Florida Bar Grievance Committee, is 2010. active with the Tampa Bay United Way and the Children’s Phil Tydingco will serve as Attorney General Rapadas’ chief deputy. 5 THE NEW ATTORNEYS GENERAL HAWAII Attorney General Schmidt appointed John Campbell David Louie as chief deputy and Eric Montgomery as chief of staff. David Louie was appointed as MAINE Attorney General by Hawaii’s new William Schneider governor, Neil Abercrombie. He Bill Schneider is a career prosecutor, graduated from Occidental College, a retired U.S. Army offi cer, and a and received his law degree from former assistant Republican leader in Boalt Hall School of Law at the the Maine House of Representatives. University of California, Berkeley. LOUIE He graduated in 1981 from the Attorney General Louie has served United States Military Academy as the director, vice president and president of the at West Point. He served with SCHNEIDER Hawaii Bar Association, and on the Board of Directors distinction in the U.S. Army, earning of the Hawaii Supreme Court Special Committee on his Special Forces Tab, Ranger Tab, and Senior Airborne Judicial Performance. He has also served as lawyer Wings, and being awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. representative for the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit He retired due to a service-connected injury. After working and as the Northwest Regional governor for the National for an engineering company as a project manager on Asian Pacifi c American Bar Association. Immediately Defense Department physical security programs for before becoming Attorney General he served as a partner several years, he attended the University of Maine Law in the Honolulu law fi rm Roeca, Louie and Hiraoka. School, graduating with honors in 1993. He served for Russell Suzuki continues as fi rst deputy attorney gen- the next fi ve years as an assistant Maine attorney general eral.
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