Dave McAlpin is an Administrative Law Judge in

Helena, Montana Helena (; ) is the capital city of Montana, United States, and the county seat of Lewis and Clark County. Helena was founded as a gold camp during the Montana gold rush, and established on October 30, 1864. Due to the gold rush, Helena would ...

. He serves as Chairman of the Montana Tax Appeal Board. He was appointed to the Board by Gov. Steve Bullock in 2013 and unanimously confirmed to the six-year term by a vote of the

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. He was designated Chairman in 2015. McAlpin was appointed by the MT Attorney General to direct the Montana State Crime Laboratory from 2009 to 2012. He is the only Montana Director elected by his peers to the Board of Directors of the American Society of Crime Lab Directors. A former Democratic member of the

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, he represented House District 94 in

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during the 2005, 2007, and 2009 legislative sessions until his appointment to the Crime Lab. In 2006 he was selected to join the Aurthur S. Flemming Fellows of the Institute of Progressive Leadership. While serving in the Montana Legislature, he served on the Taxation committee and was elected to House Leadership as

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. He managed the Smokeless States Initiative in Montana for the

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from 2001 to 2003. He was Executive Director of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) in Missoula. McAlpin served as a congressional aide to Rep. Pat Williams (D-MT) and Sen.

Max Baucus Maxwell Sieben Baucus ( Enke; born December 11, 1941) is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Montana from 1978 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a U.S. senator for over 35 years, making him the longe ...

(D-MT) in Washington, DC and Montana. He was the Chief Deputy Clerk of the Montana Supreme Court from 1995 to 1998.

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* http://mtab.mt.gov/Aboutmtab/Members
Montana House of Representatives - Dave McAlpin
official MT State Legislature website
Project Vote Smart - Representative Dave McAlpin (MT)
profile *''Follow the Money'' - Dave McAlpin
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