RECENT ADDITIONS—Matthew Levchuk (from left), Brooke Webster and Rebecca Dowdle are the newest prosecutors on District Attorney Tom Horner's staff.

Three new assistant district attorneys hired

Three new faces may be seen around the 23rd Prosecutorial District, filling two new positions and one vacated position in the office of District Attorney Tom Horner. Matthew Levchuk, Rebecca Dowdle and Brooke Webster have assumed duties as assistant district attorneys. Levchuk, who came to the office in August, filled a position vacated by former Assistant District Attorney Graham Green, who took a job as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Greensboro.

Webster and Ms. Dowdle were hired to fill two new assistant district attorney slots added to the 23rd Prosecutorial District by the state legislature, Horner said in a recent interview.

Levchuk, a native of New York who attended West Henderson High School near Asheville, did his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving a degree in journalism in 1996. After working for a couple of years for IBM in Raleigh, he decided to attend law school and graduated from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2005.

Levchuk is the son of John Levchuk of San Diego, Calif., and Rosemary Stewart of Asheville.

Webster is a native of Elkin and his parents, Dan and Glenda Webster, still live in Elkin.

He graduated from Elkin High School in 1992 and in 1997 from UNC with degrees in political science and history.

He said his interest in prosecution was spurred by an internship he did during law school with the district attorney's office in Wilmington. Levchuk said he particularly became interested in prosecuting domestic violence cases.

Webster worked for three years before attending law school at the University of Baltimore in Maryland. He received his law degree in 2003 and practiced with a firm in Winston-Salem for two years.

Webster said he wanted to use his legal skills to do public work and had been curious about working for the state as a prosecutor since his days in law school.

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