Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is naming a high-ranking U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official to head the state highway patrol.

Erik Smith will replace a retiring superintendent who is facing federal lawsuits over the agency’s policing and allegations that he sexually harassed female employees. Kelly’s appointment Friday of Smith as superintendent came on the last day on the job for retiring Superintendent Herman Jones. Smith is set to take over as superintendent on July 7th. Smith is a native of Ellsworth, Kansas, and served nine years with the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s office in Wichita before joining the DEA.