Brian Sullivan (district attorney)

Brian Joseph Sullivan (December 6, 1966 – December 8, 2014) was an American politician and lawyer.

Early life and Education
Sullivan was born in University Place, Washington, and raised in Tacoma, Washington. He received his bachelor's degree from University of Washington and his law degree from Mississippi College School of Law.

Career
After earning his law degree, Sullivan served in the United States Army as a judge advocate general and military police officer. He later practiced law in Tacoma. He served in the Washington House of Representatives as a Democrat from January 1997 to January 2001.

Alaska
Sullivan relocated to Alaska in 2001 while on duty with the United States Army. In 2007, Sullivan served on the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska School Board, and in 2010, he unsuccessfully ran for borough mayor. He then moved to Barrow, Alaska in 2012 and served as an assistant district attorney. Sullivan became involved with the Alaska Republican Party as a district party chair.

Death
On December 8, 2014, Sullivan was shot and killed in a private residence in Utqiagvik, Alaska (formerly Barrow), which Alaska police investigated as a homicide. Sullivan was 48 years old. On December 26, 2014, Ronald Fischer was indicted by an Alaska state grand jury, in Nome, Alaska, with first degree murder involving Sullivan who was seeing a woman that Fischer had previously been with involved with. On October 26, 2017 Fischer was found guilty after trial of all counts including First Degree Murder. On April 6, 2018, Alaska Superior Court Judge Gregory Miller sentenced Fischer to one hundred and five years in prison for the murder of Sullivan.