Alaska Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth has appointed a veteran prosecutor and legal advocate as the new Anchorage district attorney.
Rick Allen, head of the state Office of Public Advocacy, will replace Clint Campion, who resigned this month to take a job at Anchorage law firm Sedor Wendlandt Evans Filippi, Lindemuth said in a statement Tuesday.
Allen spent seven years as a prosecutor in Palmer at the start of his career, then was hired as the director of the Office of Public Advocacy in 2011, according to the statement.
At OPA, Allen supervised more than 150 attorneys, whose responsibilities include advocating for abused and neglected children, incapacitated adults, victims of elder fraud and parents involved in child neglect cases.