(MARQUETTE) - The Marquette County Prosecutor has been elected to the top post of the Board of Directors of the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan. Matt Wiese Saturday was voted President-elect by his peers. The Association is comprised of a 14-member Board of Directors and the Attorney General who represent Michigan’s 83 county prosecuting attorney offices. Wiese will serve a one-year term through August 2020, when he will then become the association’s president.
The Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan was established in 1928. The primary purposes of the association are to promote equal justice in enforcing the state's criminal laws and continuing the education of prosecuting attorneys and other law enforcement officials.