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Olson steps down as U.S. Attorney for Idaho |
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March 1, 2017 |
Wendy J. Olson, United States Attorney for the
District of Idaho, resigned effective Saturday,
February 25. Olson had served in
that office since being appointed by President
Barack Obama in June, 2010.
She is best known in Boundary County for
prosecuting county resident
Jeremy Hill for the killing of a grizzly bear on
his property on May 8, 2011.
Olson said she left the U.S. Attorney’s Office because
she “anticipated change coming under President
Donald Trump’s administration.”
A native of Pocatello, she had been an Assistant
United States Attorney with the District of
Idaho since 1997.
She joined the Stoel Rives law firm as a partner
in the litigation practice group February 27 in
the firm’s Boise office.
As of February 26, 2017, Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr.
assumed leadership of the office as Acting
United States Attorney. He has been the First
Assistant United States Attorney since September
of 2010. He had previously served as the
office’s criminal chief. He has been with the
office since March of 1995 and with the
Department of Justice since September of 1991.
“As United States Attorney for the District of
Idaho since 2010, Wendy Olson has been an
indispensable and collaborative law enforcement
partner in Idaho,” Gonzalez said. “Her efforts
reflected the highest traditions of the
Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney
community. We thank Wendy for her tireless work
on behalf of the District of Idaho and the
American people over the last 20 years, and we
wish her the very best as she begins the next
chapter of her distinguished career.” |
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