Christopher (Kip) . Crofts
JC O'Mahoney Federal Courthouse
Christopher “Kip” Crofts, Esq., after serving as an Army Officer in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam, attended the University of Wyoming Law School on the GI Bill, graduating in 1974. He spent four years in private practice and as a Justice of the Peace, then was appointed as an Assistant Attorney General and legal advisor to the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI). After two years he was appointed by the Governor to serve as Director of DCI where he served twelve years. He was appointed an Assistant United States Attorney in Wyoming in 1990 and served five years in the Casper Branch office prosecuting a variety of federal criminal cases. In 1995 he opened a new branch office in Lander to better serve the Wind River Indian Reservation, and prosecuted Major Crimes Act cases from the Reservation for ten years. He then accepted an assignment to serve as a Department of Justice lawyer on a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq, serving in both Baghdad and Basra. He then retired from the Department of Justice and served four years as general counsel to Governor Dave Freudenthal until his confirmation by the U.S. Senate as Wyoming's United States Attorney on December 24, 2009.
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