Former state ethics chief moves into new post

Tuesday, July 10, 2001 | 8:30 a.m.

CARSON CITY -- Kenneth Rohrs doesn't let grass grow under his feet.

The former state ethics chief has moved to his fourth government job in the past three years -- this time as executive director for the Nevada Advisory Council for Prosecuting Attorneys. He succeeds Mike McCormick in the $74,596-a-year job. McCormick took a job with the Douglas County district attorney's office.

Rohrs will be responsible for training government lawyers to handle both criminal and civil prosecutions.

Rohrs, a prosecutor for four years and general jurisdiction trial court judge for 12 years in Ohio, was dean of the National Judicial College in Reno. In 1999 he was appointed executive director of the revamped state Ethics Commission, where he supervised one employee and was paid $72,000.

He resigned from the Ethics Commission last October to become administrator of the state Division of Museums and History at a salary of $68,000, with supervision of 80 workers.

In his new post he will not have any staff but will contract out some of the training work.

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