Kenyen Brown (Main Justice file photo)
Kenyen Brown, a former House ethics committee staffer was sworn in Friday as the new U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Alabama, The Mobile Press-Register reports. Brown replaces Deborah Rhodes, who resigned April 17.
Brown, who was confirmed Nov. 21, is the first black U.S. Attorney in Alabama, according to the newspaper. He previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the district. Read our previous report about Brown’s unexpected rise here.
Among the attendees at Brown’s investiture at the John Archibald Campbell U.S. Courthouse in Mobile were federal and state judges from southwest Alabama, two congressmen, Mobile Mayor Sam Jones and relatives of Michael Donald, a black teenager who was lynched in Mobile in 1981.
Reflecting on his return to Alabama after working on Capitol Hill, Brown said, “When I look out my window here, I may not see national monuments, but the awesome responsibility and privilege is no less,” The Press-Register reported.
Brown told the newspaper he plans no changes to the management team in the U.S. Attorney’s office.
[...] and Nahmias have both since left office. Kenyen Ray Brown, a former House ethics committee staffer, replaced Rhodes in the Mobile, Ala.-based office in January. Sally Quillian Yates, a former Assistant U.S. [...]