The race to decide who will follow state Attorney General Steve Carter will have a Southern Indiana flavor.Chief Deputy Attorney General Greg Zoeller said he has been kidded while working in Indianapolis for having “the accent we have along the river.” The Republican— born in New Albany and raised in Clarksville — hopes to succeed Carter and voice his accent to command near 140 lawyers as the state’s top legal hound. He has served under Carter since 2001.

He said Southern Indiana is never far from his mind, though he has spent much of his professional career working in the state’s capital and Washington, D.C., as an aide to former U.S. Sen. and Vice President Dan Quayle.

“There’s people who say that I’ve been in Indianapolis or Washington so long that I’m no longer really from Southern Indiana,” Zoeller said. “I’ve always considered Clark and Floyd County as home.”

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