The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board of directors has tapped a longtime litigator and current senior assistant general counsel at the agency as its new chief legal counsel.

In addition to overseeing the DART legal department as general counsel, Gene Gamez also will provide legal advice and assistance to the DART board of directors, as well as its president/executive director, internal auditor and director of board support, according to a statement announcing Gamez’s promotion. He succeeds Scott Carlson, who left DART after six years last September and now is GC at Dallas-based medical device company Eclipse MedCorp, according to Carlson’s LinkedIn profile.