Attorney General Racine Names Toni Jackson as Deputy Attorney General for the Public Interest Division
April 12, 2018
司法部长卡尔·A. 拉辛宣布托尼·米歇尔·杰克逊, Chief of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) Equity Section, has been elevated to serve as Deputy Attorney General for the Public Interest Division.
作为司法部副部长. Jackson will be responsible for representing the interests of District taxpayers and directing OAG’s complex civil litigation seeking injunctive relief, 涉及地区政府合约的个案, and cases involving civil enforcement of District agency and board decisions.
“Toni has provided exceptional leadership in this office and is a skilled defender of taxpayers’ interests,司法部长拉辛说. “I am glad to be able to count on her extensive legal experience, 她出色的判断力, and her dedication to the city in this critical new role.”
Ms. Jackson, a Ward 7 resident, first joined OAG as an Assistant Attorney General in 2006. 在她任职初期, she successfully defended the District government in a $500 million breach-of-contract lawsuit, 并干练地处理了许多其他民事诉讼. She left OAG to join the United States Department of Justice as a senior trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division in 2008, 她在那里获得了多项荣誉.
She returned to OAG in 2015, as Chief of the Equity Section. As Chief, Ms. Jackson was responsible for overseeing the defense of the District and its officials and employees in complex civil litigation seeking injunctive and other relief that impacts substantially executive-level agencies. This includes class-action suits and other systemic challenges to the services, practices, conditions and care provided by District agencies and departments as well as challenges to their component operations; civil actions seeking to enjoin enforcement of or otherwise challenge any District laws; and civil actions concerning a variety of regulatory actions taken by District agencies.
“作为第三代华盛顿人, I am honored and thrilled to serve the residents of the District in this new role,” Ms. Jackson said. “I look forward to continuing to work with some of the most talented and hardworking attorneys in the District of Columbia.”
Ms. 杰克逊收到了她的J。.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1991 and her Bachelor of Business Administration from George Washington University, where she was the 1988 recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Medal of Honor. 从法学院毕业后. 杰克逊法官的书记员. “Jack” Mason, United States District Court for the District of Minnesota and the Honorable Gerald W. Heaney, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She also was a lawyer in private practice in Minneapolis before moving back to the District of Columbia to begin work at OAG.
