Karen Loeffler, District of Alaska
By
Joe Palazzolo | July 29, 2009 4:19 pm
Karen Loeffler (Dartmouth, Harvard Law) has been interim U.S. Attorney since March 1, when Bush-appointee Nelson Cohen returned to his home of Pittsburgh.
Her vitals:
- Born in New York City in 1957.
- Been an assistant U.S. attorney in Alaska for 21 years. Since March, Loeffler has been the office’s interim U.S. attorney. She was previously the office’s criminal chief.
- From 2005 to 2008, she was a park commissioner for the City of Anchorage. (She resigned “due to inability to attend to commission duties and meetings due to time conflicts with work schedule.)
- Director of the Anchorage Ski Club since 2002.
- During law school, spent summers as a tennis instructor.
- Provided office services in the 1976 re-election campaign of then-Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn) and did some ”door knocking, stuffed envelopes and did similar related work” in Dianne Loeffler’s campaign for Minnesota State Senate in 1972.
- Estimates that she has tried between 40 and 55 cases as a state and federal prosecutor.
- As a special assistant U.S. attorney in the late 1980s, she and two other lawyers successfully prosecuted two contractors charged with RICO and related offenses involving $20 million bribery and kickback scheme.
- Loeffler lists a net worth of $2.8 million, with securities totalling about $1.7 million.
Click here for her full questionnaire.
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Dianne Loeffler is not the mother of Karen Loeffler.
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