Wyoming Lawyer
From 1976-1978, he was a state assistant attorney general and an aide to Democratic Governor Edgar Herschler. In 1979, Herschler named Honaker as Wyoming's second state public defender, in which capacity he supervised in criminal law the work of thirty trial lawyers during a two-year stint. While he was a public defender, Honaker prosecuted a lengthy homicide case in Rock Springs and decided to open a law office there. He is the only person to have served as president of both the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association and Wyoming Bar Association, a position he held in 2002 and 2003. He was appointed by the Wyoming Supreme Court to the bar association's rules and disciplinary committees.
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