Initial Report and Recommendations - Alaska Department of Law

Timothy M. Burgess, was the Federal Co-chair representing the UnitedStates Attorney General’s Office through January 2006 when he wasappointed to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court. Mr. Burgess wasnominated by President George W. Bush to be United States Attorney forthe District of Alaska in September 2001. Mr. Burgess serves on the 16-member Attorney General's Advisory Committee, co-chairs theDepartment's Environmental Crimes Policy Committee and chairs the Anti-Terrorism Task Force for Alaska. Prior to his appointment as United StatesAttorney, Mr. Burgess served as an Assistant United States Attorney for 12years.David W. Márquez is the State Co-chair representing the Alaska AttorneyGeneral's Office. Governor Frank H. Murkowski appointed David W.Márquez as Attorney General for the State of Alaska on March 31, 2005,and he assumed the role of State Co-chair at that time. Márquez is agraduate of Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin LawSchool. He was admitted to the Alaska Bar in 1973. He began his legalcareer with a private law firm in Anchorage doing title opinions for theTrans-Alaska Pipeline prior to construction. He later became GeneralCounsel of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company that operates TAPS. Heworked for ARCO for over 20 years where he was an Associate GeneralCounsel serving in Anchorage as Vice President and Chief Counsel forARCO Alaska and also Vice President of External Affairs andEnvironment, Health and Safety for ARCO Alaska. He served twice as theChair of the Board of Junior Achievement of Alaska and was also Chair ofthe Board of the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce. Prior to hisappointment as Attorney General, Márquez served as the Chief AssistantAttorney General, Legislative and Regulations Section in the AlaskaDepartment of Law and as the Acting Deputy Attorney General, CivilDivision for the Department.Deborah M. Smith is the Acting Federal Co-chair, representing the UnitedStates Attorney’s Office. Ms. Smith was appointed Acting U.S. Attorneyin 2006, having served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for Alaska from2002-2006 and from 1983-1987. She also served as the Chair of the JointCoordination Group of the Antiterrorism Advisory Council of Alaska,2004-2006. Ms. Smith began her career in Alaska as an Assistant PublicDefender. She later served as the New England Bank Fraud Task ForceDirector and Deputy Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section,Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice,in Washington, D.C. Before attending law school, Ms. Smith was theeducation editor for the Fort Lauderdale News in Florida.Bruce M. Botelho representing the Alaska Municipal League, is currentlyMayor of the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, an office he held oncebefore. He served as Alaska’s Attorney General from January 1994 untilDecember 2002. He received both his undergraduate and law degrees fromWillamette University in Salem, Oregon. He also completed his B.A.equivalent from Ruprecht Karl University in Heidelberg, Germany. Hebegan his legal career in 1976 as an Assistant Attorney General and laterserved as Deputy Commissioner of the Alaska Department ofAlaska Rural Justice and Law Enforcement Commission - Page 68