Governor selects Boyle, Crum to fill cabinet spots
Gov. Mike Dunleavy is making new cabinet picks. John Boyle, former government affairs manager for BP and most recently Santos, Ltd., will be state resources commissioner be- ginning in January. He replaces Akis Gialopsos, who was acting in the job.
Boyle was also previously an attorney with the North Slope Borough. Boyle’s appointment has raised some eye- brows over a dispute between Santos and ConocoPhillips over access to in- dustrial roads. “Commissioner Boyle will serve
both the department and Alaskans with distinction,” said the Gover- nor. “His legal training, knowledge of Alaska’s resource industries and commitment to developing our re- sources make him an excellent choice to lead the department during my second term.” Boyle moved to Alaska in 2010 af - ter graduating law school to serve a judicial clerkship in Fairbanks. Fol - lowing the conclusion of the clerk- ship, he moved to Utqiagvik to work as an Assistant Borough Attorney and later Chief Advisor to the Mayor and Director of the North Slope Borough’s Government and External Affairs de - partment. In 2016, he moved to BP as the com - pany’s Director of Government Affairs before joining Oil Search (now Santos) as Government Affairs Manager. Boyle earned a Juris Doctorate from J. Ruben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University and a Bachelor of Science in Management and Finance at Brigham Young University. Another cabinet change is the gov- ernor’s naming of Adam Crum, former state health commissioner, as new Commissioner of Revenue to replace Lucinda Mahoney, who retired. Crum has a strong management background particularly in health care, where he managed the recent split of the agen- cy into two new departments, with the social services and federal Medicaid program management spun off into a department of family and childrens services and core health care programs into the new Department of Health. Crum is also given credit for man- aging the health department through the COVID-19 crisis, and in recruiting the top-notch state chief medical of- ficer, Dr. Anne Zink, to help with that. Crum was born and raised in Alaska and has a master’s degree in health science from John Hopkins Universi- ty. He also has experience in indus- trial workforce training from helping manage the family-owned Northern Industrial Training, of Palmer.
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