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Stephen McAllister Confirmed As Top Federal Prosecutor In Kansas

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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday evening unanimously voted to confirm KU School of Law professor Stephen McAllister as the top federal prosecutor in Kansas.

McAllister was nominated in September by President Donald Trump and succeeds Tom Beall, a career prosecutor who served as interim U.S. Attorney.

McAllister, 55, teaches at KU Law and was its dean from 2000 to 2005.

He has also served as solicitor general of Kansas, defending the state in key cases such as Gannon, the school financing case, death penalty cases and cases challenging Kansas’ abortion laws.

McAllister, who grew up in the tiny north-central town of Lucas, Kansas, graduated at the top of his KU law school class in 1988. He clerked for Richard Posner, one of the most highly regarded federal appeals court judges in the country, before going on to clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Clarence Thomas.

As the top federal prosecutor in the state, McAllister will oversee 50 assistant U.S. attorneys and 50 support staff based in offices in Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City, Kansas.

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Dan Margolies is KCUR’s health editor. You can reach him on Twitter @DanMargolies.

 
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Dan Margolies is editor in charge of health news at KCUR, the public radio station in Kansas City. Dan joined KCUR in April 2014. In a long and varied journalism career, he has worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Business Journal, The Kansas City Star and Reuters. In a previous life, he was a lawyer. He has also worked as a media insurance underwriter and project development director for a video production firm.