Jocelyn Brasher is running against her former boss, Mike Hilgers, for Nebraska attorney general. (Courtesy of Jocelyn Brasher)
OMAHA — An Omaha lawyer who once worked in the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office battling consumer fraud and unfair trade practices is challenging her former boss as the state’s top civil and criminal attorney.
Jocelyn Brasher, a lifelong Nebraskan, spent five years as an assistant attorney general, including about nine months of that under the leadership of Attorney General Mike Hilgers, a Republican and former state senator.
She left that role with the AG’s Office, which had her also heading multistate investigations, to prosecute crime as a deputy Dodge County attorney. Most recently, Brasher, 35, was a litigator for an Omaha private firm. Earlier, she led the child support enforcement division in the Dawson County Attorney’s Office in Lexington…