Former Chicago Inspector General Deborah Witzburg is joining Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office just days after her term as the city’s top watchdog ended.

With the quick change, Witzburg will become Raoul’s chief of staff, a top slot for the state’s public attorney. She starts Friday, Raoul said in a statement.

“Deborah served the city of Chicago with distinction, and her experience as inspector general and a former prosecutor gives her perspective to lead the office prioritizing efficiency and integrity,” Raoul said in a statement Thursday afternoon.

Witzburg declined to comment when called, but praised the office in the statement.

The former inspector general garnered a reputation for high-profile investigations, some of which saw her butt heads with Mayor Brandon Johnson and his administration.

She shared a report recommending Johnson’s top adviser, Jason Lee, be fired for failing to cooperate with an investigation into a negotiation with an aldermen, traded jabs with the mayor’s top attorney, Mary Richardson-Lowry, over legislation governing the city Law Department’s role in inspector general investigations and slammed the mayor’s office for blocking her team’s inquiries into his City Hall gift closet.

Johnson, who recently called the gift closet report “reprehensible,” appeared poised to not appoint Witzburg to a second term when she announced last July that she would not seek one. At the time, she had for months argued she deserved the second-go.

The mayor told WBEZ’s “In The Loop” program earlier this month that her work was “disingenuous” and “woefully politicized.”

In an exit interview with the Tribune, she seemed to view his condemnation as a badge of honor.

“If a mayor felt warm and fuzzy about their inspector general, we wouldn’t be doing our job,” she said.

Johnson announced Monday that he would appoint former high-ranking federal prosecutor David Glockner to be the city’s next inspector general. Glockner, who also held high-level legal roles at Citadel and most recently energy giant Exelon, must still be approved by the City Council.

The appointee declined to speak with the press through a mayoral aide, a potential sign that he could deviate from Witzburg’s openness to publicizing her investigations through interviews once they were released.

Meanwhile, Witzburg, who graduated from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and also served as an assistant Cook County state’s attorney before rising up through the Chicago Inspector General’s Office before her appointment, joins an office that has routinely embraced public fights with the Trump administration.

She had declined to say what her next steps would be just two weeks ago. And she declined to say too if she would ever consider running for office in the future.