Gov. Tony Evers has picked the Wisconsin State Patrol’s next leader.
Evers named patrol Maj. Anthony Burrell as superintendent on Friday. He will take over on Sunday.
Burrell has served as a state trooper since 1990. He was promoted to sergeant in 2006, lieutenant in 2012 and captain of the patrol’s 11-county Northeast Region in 2015.
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He was promoted to major and deputy director of the state patrol’s field operations bureau, which oversees about 385 people and has an annual budget of $45 million, in December 2016.
Burrell is president of the National Black State Troopers Coalition and is a graduate of the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety.
He replaces former Superintendent J.D. Lind, who retired last fall.
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