Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy recently appointed Joan Wilson to serve as executive director of the Alaska Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office (AMCO).
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Wilson is currently a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the Alaska Department of Law, where she serves as an advisor to AMCO. She will begin her new role on May 8, 2022.
Wilson will succeed Glen Klinkhart, who is transferring to a new position in the Alaska Department of Revenue this month. AMCO Licensing and Records Supervisor Carrie Craig will serve as AMCO acting executive director during the transition period.
Wilson earned a Juris Doctorate from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College and serves as a board member on the Municipality of Anchorage, Board of Ethics, and the Bear Valley Community Association.
Wilson has 25 years of experience in civil and criminal law within the private and public sectors. She is also a contributing author to the Attorney General Alliance’s Cannabis Law Deskbook – an accounting of the evolving cannabis law field.
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