National Guard leader moving to AG staff

Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2000 | 10:58 a.m.

SUN CAPITAL BUREAU

CARSON CITY -- Adjutant General Tony Clark, head of the Nevada National Guard under Republican Gov. Kenny Guinn, is leaving the job to join the staff of Democrat Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa.

Clark will take over the $90,000-a-year job as solicitor general in the attorney general's office on Jan. 22. He succeeds Alan Beckman of Las Vegas, who held the job for only a few weeks before returning to teach at UNLV.

Clark has been adjutant general since 1986, commanding 3,000 members of the Air and Army National Guard. He now earns about $80,000 from the state.

Clark began his legal career as a law clerk for the Nevada Supreme Court in 1964 and then entered into private law practice in Reno until his appointment to the state job. He served nine years as a member of the Nevada Judicial Discipline Commission, two terms as a member of the Nevada Board of Bar Governors and also terms on the State Parole Commission and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.