Kim Wherry Toryanski Administrator

On July 13, 2007, the Idaho Commission on Aging welcomed Administrator Kim Wherry Toryanski.  Governor C. L. "Butch" Otter made the appointment, which was confirmed by the Idaho Senate on February 20, 2008.  Prior to joining the Commission, Kim was in private law practice in Boise where she operated her own firm for nine years.  She has advised individuals, businesses, and governmental entities, and has decades of litigation experience in Idaho state courts and federal courts throughout the nation.  The major focus of Kim's private practice was pursuit of workers' pension and employment benefits under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act, as well as general business and criminal justice.  She has spent nearly half of her 22 years of legal practice vigorously protecting the rights of vulnerable people in this community.  In addition to her private practice, Kim has been devoted to assisting Idaho citizens through volunteer efforts such as Idaho Legal Aid, the Idaho Law Foundation and the U. S. Veterans' Administration Project Stand-Down for the Homeless.

Earlier in her career, Kim served as a federal and state prosecutor handling complex criminal and civil litigation, including health care fraud and telemarketing fraud cases in which victims often are the elderly or aged.  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.

Kim's interest in protecting vulnerable segments of society comes to her by birth; she is a second generation federal prosecutor who grew up in Florida, but she is part of a large family with roots in Idaho going back over 100 years.  She is married to attorney and Idaho Army National Guardsman Mitch Toryanski.  They live in Boise with their two sons and daughter.