Three years after coming up short in her bid to become the Park County attorney, Leda Pojman has landed a different role as the Natrona County attorney.

Commissioners in Natrona County named the former Cody resident as the county’s top legal adviser earlier this summer.

Pojman had been serving as a deputy county attorney in Casper when the five-person office experienced a series of departures. By early May, Pojman was the only remaining employee, and she wound up running the office by herself for roughly two months.

At an early June meeting, Natrona County Commission Chair Dave North praised Pojman for sticking with the county.

“She stepped up to a tough position and a tough situation and she’s taken the bull by the horns and [is] running with it,” North said. “And I appreciate that.”

Pojman carried the interim county attorney title in May and June before being officially appointed and sworn in on July 1.

Pojman told the commissioners at the time that she appreciated the opportunity and was “confident” the office would stabilize.

A couple months later, the office now has a new deputy county attorney and paralegal working alongside Pojman, she said in a Thursday email, while a contracted attorney in Buffalo is handling the prosecution of so-called Title 25 proceedings. Those are cases in which individuals who pose a danger to themselves as a result of mental illness are involuntarily hospitalized.

Natrona County had roughly 900 Title 25 cases last year, Pojman said, so the office doesn’t have the capacity to handle them in-house. Beyond that outsourcing, however, “we are back on track and things are going well,” she said.

Pojman is a Casper native and attended Casper College; the college’s foundation and alumni association celebrated her appointment in a Facebook post last week.

Pojman served as a deputy Park County attorney for over two years before entering private practice in Cody. She ran against her former boss, Park County and Prosecuting Attorney Bryan Skoric, in the 2022 Republican primary election, garnering 36.4% of the vote to Skoric’s 63.4%. It was the first time in 19 years that Skoric had faced an opponent.

In most Wyoming counties, the county attorney doubles as the prosecuting attorney, handling both civil and criminal cases. However, the setup is different in Laramie and Natrona counties, where criminal cases are handled by an elected district attorney and civil matters are handled by a county attorney chosen by the commissioners.

As laid out in state law, Pojman’s appointment will last for one year, at which point the commission can decide whether to extend her term.