The Oregon Department of Justice is in Salem. (Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital Chronicle)
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield has hired two key staffers to serve in legislative and policy roles in his administration.
Alicia Temple will be the administration’s legislation director. Temple previously served as Rayfield’s senior policy advisor in the Oregon House speaker’s Office. Rayfield, the former state House speaker, was elected attorney general in November and just took office.
Temple has more than 15 years of advocacy and public policy experience. Her past roles include senior policy advisor at Multnomah County; legislative advocate at the Oregon Law Center; deputy director at Coalition of Community Health Clinics; and policy director for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon.
Leslie Wu, a former deputy district attorney in Multnomah County, will serve as Rayfield’s policy advisor. Wu worked as a prosecutor for six years and also worked in 2021 as counsel to the Oregon Senate and House Judiciary Committees with the Legislative Policy and Research Office.
While attending the University of Washington School of Law, she worked at the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and with a federal district court judge.
“Alicia and Leslie are both strong leaders who will bring a great depth of knowledge and experience to our team,” Rayfield said in a statement.
Key staffers from former Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum’s administration are staying on with Rayfield.
Those include Civil Rights Director Fay Stetz-Waters, who has been in the role since 2019, and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Udland, who started her career at the agency in 2002.
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