New chief for WSU Attorney General’s Office named

OLYMPIA — Sharyl Kammerzell has been named the new division chief of WSU’s Attorney General’s Office by Attorney General Rob McKenna.
 
Kammerzell, who will assume her new role on Nov.16, has served as senior associate general counsel in the Office of General Counsel at the University of Idaho since 2002.
 
She succeeds Antoinette (Toni) Ursich, who served as WSU division chief for 12 years and earlier this year was named chief of the Spokane Division by McKenna. Senior Counsel Sylvia Glover has served as interim chief of the WSU division since Sept. 1.
 
As general counsel at the University of Idaho, Kammerzell’s experience ranges from “working with internal and external constituent groups on a multitude of institutional efforts” to “managing and advising the institution through complex litigation.”
Prior to her work at the University of Idaho, Kammerzell served as an assistant attorney general in the Oregon Department of Justice Natural Resources Section from 1998 to 2003.
She received a degree in politics from Mount Holyoke College in 1988 and her law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1995.
 
Kammerzell’s resume also includes working in the Peace Corps in Kpalime, Togo, West Africa, clerking for the Oregon Supreme Court and legal work on natural resource and Indian issues.
 
Kammerzell “brings broad experience in higher education and public law to this important position,” McKenna said.

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