At midnight on New Year’s Day — the first moment of 2026 — life will change for attorney Erika Evans for the second time in nine months.
Evans will begin her term as the elected city attorney of Seattle on Jan. 1. Her campaign was a juggernaut — she won with nearly two-thirds of the vote on Nov. 4. But her campaign was also unexpected.
Evans quit her position as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice in March, even though she had once considered that position a “dream job.”…