By Melanie Eversley
Nick Brown, the former counsel to Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee, was confirmed late last month as the new U.S. attorney for Western Washington.
The move makes Brown, a graduate of Morehouse College, the first Black U.S. attorney in Washington state, the Seattle Times reports.
Brown was a litigation partner at Pacifica Law Group, a Seattle firm, where he handled civil and public policy litigation, according to the Times. He was Inslee’s general counsel from 2013 to 2017.
