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Who They Are: Tucson

Roi Lusk

City Attorney · Manager's office and charter officers, Tucson

How
Appointed
Since
September 2025
Background
Appointed September 2025, succeeding Mike Rankin.

What the office does

The city attorney prosecutes violations of the charter and city ordinances, handles all lawsuits and proceedings in which the city has a legal interest (the mayor and council keep control of the city's litigation), gives written legal opinions when the council or a city officer asks, drafts ordinances on request, and must approve the form of every contract the city makes and every bond given to it, in writing.

The attorney is appointed by the mayor and council to a two-year term, is not supervised by the city manager, and must have practiced law for at least five years.

Source: Tucson Charter, Chapter X, § 4; Chapter V, § 4.

In our reporting

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Who They Are was researched and written by Nicholas De Leon with Claude Fable 5.1 from the official pages, election canvasses, statutes and contracts linked on each chart; the reports naming each person are matched by code from What They Decided, and no model wrote any of it. Last updated 10:31 AM MST on October 5, 2026. Read more about how this is made.