Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said Wednesday that she has reorganized her office’s civil department, breaking out that department’s state agencies division as its own unit.
Meredith Blaise Rebsamen, a member of the attorney general’s staff for nearly six years, has been named deputy attorney general for the state agencies department.
Rebsamen joined the attorney general’s office as an assistant attorney general in the agency division of the civil department in October 2009. During her tenure as an agency attorney, Rebsamen has represented nearly 50 state boards, agencies and commissions, as well as several two-year colleges.
Attorneys in the state agencies department provide legal representation to the more than 200 state agencies, boards, commissions, two-year colleges and other entities. The civil department will continue to represent state agencies, officials, boards and commissions when any are named as defendants in civil lawsuits.
“Arkansans deserve to have the office of the attorney general function as the state’s top law firm,” Rutledge in a news release. “Included in that responsibility is ensuring that the office is best representing and providing top-notch legal advice to Arkansas’s numerous agencies, boards, commissions, colleges and other entities to resolve problems efficiently.”
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