TORYANSKI BECOMES COMMISSION ON
AGING ADMINISTRATOR

            (BOISE) – Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter said today that Kim Toryanski, a Boise lawyer who specialized most recently in pension and employment benefits under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act, is the new administrator of the state Commission on Aging.

            She succeeds Lois Bauer, who retired.

            “Lois set a high bar for the protection of older Idahoans. Few people in my experience put as much care, compassion and commitment into their jobs as Lois did. With Kim, Idaho seniors have another strong and able advocate,” Governor Otter said. “Her record of working on behalf of vulnerable clients and navigating some of government’s toughest bureaucracies makes her uniquely qualified for this new challenge.”

            Before her last nine years in private legal practice, Toryanski served as a federal and state prosecutor handling complex criminal and civil litigation, including health care fraud and telemarketing fraud cases in which the elderly or aged often are victimized.  She served in Washington, D.C. as an attorney with the U. S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, and as Majority Staff Counsel to the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

            In her new role, Toryanski works with a seven-member Idaho Commission on Aging, which also is appointed by the Governor. The commission is an advocacy body in state government and the community for older Idahoans.

Toryanski is married to Idaho Deputy Attorney General Mitch Toryanski. They live in Boise with their two sons and daughter.