{"id":66826,"date":"2021-01-17T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ed-sniffen-appointed-as-attorney-general\/"},"modified":"2021-01-17T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T07:30:00","slug":"ed-sniffen-appointed-as-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ed-sniffen-appointed-as-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sniffen appointed as Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clyde “Ed” Sniffen has been named as the state’s attorney general, Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced.<\/p>\n

Sniffen was previously appointed acting attorney general after his predecessor Kevin Clarkson resigned in August following revelations about inappropriate texting with a state employee.<\/p>\n

“Ed Sniffen has a long and proven record of leadership within the Department of Law and I am proud to appoint him to serve as our state’s next attorney general,” Dunleavy said in a Monday news release announcing the appointment “In the past two years I have worked alongside Ed and know he will serve my administration and the people of Alaska with distinction.”<\/p>\n

Attorney general resigns following revelations of inappropriate texts<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n

Sniffen began his career with the Alaska Department of Law in 2000, serving as a senior assistant attorney general in the consumer protection unit, then as a chief assistant attorney general, deputy attorney general, chief of staff, and most recently as acting attorney general, the governor’s office said in a news release.<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Peter Segall at psegall@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @SegallJnoEmpire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acting AG since August. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":66827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-66826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66826"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}