Mayor and Council Selects Roi Lusk as City Attorney
The Mayor and Council has selected Roi Lusk to serve as Tucson's City Attorney.
"I am proud to announce that Mayor and Council have appointed Roi Lusk as our next City Attorney to lead us forward. Roi is a person who understands our community deeply and has the utmost respect and admiration of his colleagues at the City Attorney's Office. He is innovative, bringing a profound understanding of the law, and is the right person to protect the residents of Tucson at a time when cities across the country are increasingly becoming targets of federal overreach,” said Tucson Mayor Regina Romero.
A graduate of Northwestern University and Loyola University of Chicago, Roi began his career of service to the City of Tucson community in 2007 as a Law Clerk with the Criminal Division of the Tucson City Attorney's Office and then moved forward into increasing roles of responsibility within the office, including serving as Senior Assistant Prosecuting City Attorney from December 2013 - March 2017, Principal Assistant City Attorney with the Civil Division beginning in March 2017, and then assuming the additional role of Chief Deputy City Attorney with the Civil Division in August 2024.
During his almost two-decade career with the City, Lusk has worked closely with several Mayors and Council, City Managers, and most of the departments within the City organization, as well as successfully representing the City in legal proceedings at the Pima County Superior Court, Arizona Court of Appeals, local limited jurisdiction courts, and the Arizona Corporation Commission. Lusk has also made numerous public presentations on the legal parameters of City programs and has presented at the annual meeting of the International Municipal Lawyers Association in Washington DC.
"I am truly honored to have been selected to serve as Tucson's City Attorney. I understand that the City Attorney's Office, and the City as a whole, is made up of people. People that have needs and desires, challenges and opportunities, faith and fear," stated Lusk. "City leadership relies on the legal acumen, prudent counsel, and wholistic understanding of the City Attorney to allow them to serve these people in the best way possible. The incredible employees of the City Attorney's Office rely on the City Attorney to support them, encourage them and challenge them to do their very best for City departments, the Mayor and Council, the City Manager and ultimately the Tucson community. It has been and will always be my intention to live up to that ideal of servant leadership, as my predecessor has done."
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