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Lun Kham Pieper, ’09, has been named to the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, where she will serve as a deputy prosecutor with the Special Victim’s Team, Domestic Violence Department. She also will serve with the Community Prosecution Division as the Burmese Outreach Specialist.

In this new role, she will be responsible for the office’s outreach into the Burmese community, mostly providing education and helping the community find the resources it needs.

Pieper had previously worked as a solo practitioner and as a court-approved translator/interpreter for Burmese and Chin (Tiddim) languages. In her law practice, she handled mostly immigration cases, as well as a few criminal defense and family law cases. Most of her clients are refugees from Burma. In her work as a translator/interpreter, she provided language services during a two-week child homicide trial in Salt Lake City, among other cases. Pieper also has worked as a court-approved interpreter for the Marion County courts, the Marion County Probation Department, and Community Corrections.