Robert Hildum may be bailing from the his interim role as the head of the District’s juvenile justice agency to avoid the likelihood that he’d be jobless under a Vince Gray administration, but he won’t be safe from the unemployment line when he returns to his old job in the D.C. Attorney General’s office.
Hildum’s last day at the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services is Friday. Next week, he’ll be back to heading up the Attorney General’s public safety division. D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles said Hildum left because it didn’t appear he’d be hired by Vince Gray.
But being the head of the public safety division is an at-will job, said assistant attorney general Steven Anderson, who heads the union that represents the office’s attorneys.
Nickles has already said he’s heading out the door with Mayor Adrian Fenty, which means a new attorney general is certain to come in with Gray. That attorney general will likely want to pick his or her own staff.
Hildum’s position is far enough down the food chain that he might survive, Anderson said, “but it’s by no means guaranteed.”
