Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced her top advisors, all of whom come with long institutional knowledge of the office.
Kane appointed Linda Dale Hoffa to the position of senior executive deputy attorney general. Hoffa is a former criminal chief at the United States Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia and a former executive deputy general counsel for criminal justice in the Governor’s Office of General Counsel.
Kane’s first deputy attorney general is Adrian R. King. King was director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency under former Governor Rendell, for whom he also served as special assistant.
Lawrence M. Cherba will serve as executive deputy attorney general for criminal law. He served as senior deputy attorney general, drug strike force section, drug diversion unit, where he prosecuted drug crimes.
In the civil division, Executive Deputy Attorney General for Civil Law Susan J. Forney will continue. She joined the attorney general’s office in 1978 and headed the litigation division from 1998 to 2010.
James A. Donahue, III, will run the public protection unit on an acting basis. He has worked for the office since 1985 and has been head of the antitrust section for 15 years.
Kane has named Bruce Beemer, former chief of staff to appointed Attorney General Linda Kelly and a former Allegheny County prosecutor, as a senior advisor.
Kane is the first Democrat elected attorney general since we started voting for the position in 1980, and she is the first woman elected to the position.