Federal prosecutors in Kansas City for the first time in their office's recent turbulent history could see one of their own at the helm. President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced his nomination of Beth Phillips, an assistant U.S. attorney in Kansas City, to serve as the permanent U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. Phillips has spent a total of roughly five years as a prosecutor in Kansas City and worked in private civil practice for seven years.

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Eastern District U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway confirmed Friday that she is joining a firm headed by former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. Hanaway is slated to leave the U.S. Attorney position Monday for a law firm to be known here as Ashcroft Hanaway. Missouri Lawyers Weekly reported in February that Hanaway planned to work with Ashcroft when she left office, but Hanaway declined to comment at that time, saying she first had to formally give her resignation to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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John Wood has the distinction of being the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri who wasn’t touched by the national attorney firing scandal. Todd Graves, who left the office in March 2006, later revealed that he had been ...

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John Wood, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced his resignation Wednesday afternoon. Wood, who has been at the post less than two years, has accepted a position as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of ...

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