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6 unusual facts about United States Attorney


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Adam Sullivan (Scott Foley) is a naive, but well-intentioned federal prosecutor (an Assistant United States Attorney) in New York City, who must contend with the difficulties of both his work life and his romantic life.

David W. Marston

, known as Dave Marston (born 1942), is a Philadelphia lawyer and author who was in 1978 removed from his position as United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Edward Gourdin

He left his law practice in 1935 to serve as assistant United States Attorney from Massachusetts.

Michael Leiter

From 2002 until 2005, he served with the Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

United States Attorney

It was organized by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge James R. Browning, who also served as its first chief.

Virginie de Ternant

Together they had one son, Charles (July 23, 1851 – February 4, 1907), who would enjoy a distinguished political career as a state senator, United States Attorney, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, and United States federal judge.


Bill Canary

His wife, Leura Canary, was the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.

Carl Sherman

He was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of New York appointed by President Woodrow Wilson.

Charles Parlange

Charles Parlange (July 23, 1851 – February 4, 1907) was a Louisiana state senator, United States Attorney, Louisiana Lieutenant Governor, Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court and United States federal judge.

Gary Kaplan

On July 17, 2006 the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri office, citing the Federal Wire Act of 1961, which prohibits the use of a wire communication facility to transmit bets across state or foreign borders, issued a 22 count indictment for Gary Kaplan and eight others, including David Carruthers.

George Bradley Kellogg

In March 1867 President Andrew Johnson nominated Kellogg to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, but he was not confirmed by the United States Senate.

George Weston Anderson

President Woodrow Wilson appointed him United States Attorney for Massachusetts and he served in that position from 1914 to 1917, followed by one year as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Jennifer Prescod May-Parker

Jennifer Prescod May-Parker (born 1964) is Chief of the Appellate Division of the United States Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of North Carolina and is a nominee for United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

John Elliott Ward

He served as United States Attorney for Georgia, mayor of Savannah, Georgia, speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, president of the Georgia Senate, president of the 1856 Democratic National Convention, and United States Minister to China under James Buchanan.

Kevin Duffy

Duffy served as an Assistant United States Attorney (1958–1959) and assistant chief of the Criminal Division (1959–1961) at the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York before going into private practice as an associate with the New York City firm Whitman, Ransom & Coulson (1961–1966).

Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Thomas P. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (July 19, 1977 to April 30, 1981)

Michael Daly Hawkins

He was the United States Attorney for Arizona from 1977 until 1980, and was a Special Prosecutor for the Navajo Nation from 1985 through 1989.

New York University Journal of International Law and Politics

From 1985 to 1986, the Managing Editor of the Journal was Benjamin B. Wagner, current United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California.

Parlange Plantation House

Together they had one son, also named Charles, who survived the Civil War to begin a distinguished career as a State Senator, United States District Attorney, Lieutenant Governor, federal judge, and finally justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Rick Haselton

During law school, Haselton clerked for the U.S. Attorney for Oregon Sidney I. Lezak.

Robert H. Edmunds, Jr.

After working as a district attorney in Guilford County, North Carolina and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, Edmunds served as the presidentially-appointed United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina from 1986 to 1993.

Susan J. Dlott

She was a law clerk to Alvin Krenzler and Jack Day of the Ohio Court of Appeals from 1973 to 1974, then became an assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio from 1975 to 1979.

Thomas B. Mason

Thomas Boyd Mason (January 12, 1919 – March 9, 2007) was an American United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia (1961–1969), and an actor.

Thomas Capano

U.S. Attorney Colm Connolly and Delaware state prosecutor Ferris Wharton were the state's prosecutors, and William Swain Lee was the presiding judge in the highly publicized Superior Court trial.

United States District Court for the District of New Mexico

United States Attorney David Iglesias headed this office until his controversial dismissal following the 2006 midterm elections.

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court.

William Augustus Bootle

From 1925 to 1928, Bootle had a private practice in Macon; in 1928 he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney by President Calvin Coolidge, serving at this post for two years.

William Tong

On March 7, 2009, it was reported that Tong was being considered by a panel assembled by Sens. Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman to screen candidates for United States Attorney.


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Benjamin Brewster

Benjamin H. Brewster (1816–1888), United States Attorney General, 1881–1885

Brian Anthony Jackson

In January 2009, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu approached Jackson and encouraged him to become a United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Byron Jones

B. Todd Jones (born 1957), acting director of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota

Diane Humetewa

Humetewa resigned effective August 2, 2009 when President Barack Obama nominated Dennis K. Burke as the next United States Attorney for the District of Arizona.

Frank J. Christensen

The lawsuit was filed by United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald on behalf of the United States Department of Labor asking the Court to have Elevator Constructors Local 2 comply with the Department of Labor Subpoena Duces Tecum filed on April 24, 2007 for various records and documents in connection with an investigation to determine whether any person has violated or is about to violate the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.

Frank McNamara

Frank L. McNamara, Jr., United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1989

Guy G. Hurlbutt

Guy Gordon Hurlbutt (born January 23, 1942) is an Idaho lawyer, a former United States Attorney, a former federal judicial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a former Idaho state official.

Henry Anderson

Henry W. Anderson (1870–1954), United States attorney and leader of the Republican Party in Virginia

James K. Bredar

He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Colorado (1985–1989) and a Deputy District Attorney in Moffat County, Colorado (1984–1985).

John Vivian

John Charles Vivian (1889–1964), United States attorney, journalist, Governor of Colorado

Judith Ellen Levy

Judith Ellen Levy (born 1958) is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan and is a nominee for United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Keith Carson

Carson is asking the California Attorney General and the United States Attorney’s Office to investigate the shooting of Oscar Grant III, an unarmed black man who was shot by BART Transit Police on New Year's Eve.

Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.

On June 27, 2013, President Obama nominated Polite to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana for a term of four years, the office having been vacated by Jim Letten, who resigned on December 11, 2012.

Louis Manna

He was also suspected but never convicted of placing murder contracts on U.S. Attorney Samuel Alito, Assistant United States Attorney Michael Chertoff and United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Maryanne Trump Barry, the sister of Donald Trump.

Monte N. Stewart

Stewart served for at time as United States Attorney for the District of Nevada pursuant to an appointment by the Federal Judges of that District, and later was a legal advisor to Governor Michael Leavitt of Utah.

Paul Martin Newby

After four years in private practice in Kannapolis, a year as a counsel to a real estate developer, Vice President and General Counsel of Cannon Mills Realty and Development Corporation, Newby was appointed Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina in 1985, a post he held for almost twenty years.

Paul McNulty

As United States Attorney, McNulty is most noted for overseeing the prosecution of a number of high-profile cases, including those against terror suspects John Walker Lindh, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali and Zacarias Moussaoui.

Pete Perry

On February 9, 2005 Perry and activists David Barrows and Midge Potts protested US torture and the nomination and confirmation hearings of Alberto Gonzalez for United States Attorney General.

Phillip E. Hill, Sr.

United States Attorney David Nahmias said, "The negative impact on our neighborhoods of this multimillion dollar fraud scheme extends far beyond the financial loss to the victim lenders. The Phillip Hill mortgage fraud scheme charged in this indictment is the most extensive this office and federal investigative agencies have uncovered to date in the Atlanta area. This indictment is a major step forward in this office’s commitment to expose and eradicate mortgage fraud schemes in our community."

Robert Cleary

Robert J. Cleary (born 1955), United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey and lead prosecutor in the Unabomber case

Robert Goodwin

R. Booth Goodwin, (born 1971), known commonly as Booth Goodwin is the United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia

Rosa Emilia Rodríguez

A career prosecutor, first in the Puerto Rico Department of Justice and subsequently in the U.S. Attorney's office in San Juan, she has been nominated by President George W. Bush as United States Attorney.

Samuel F. Snively

At the time, Brewster was the United States Attorney General in the cabinet of Chester A. Arthur.

Thomas B. Mason

Mason was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia by John F. Kennedy in 1961.

Thomas Gregory

Thomas Watt Gregory (1861–1933), American attorney and United States Attorney General

Thomas O'Brien

Thomas P. O'Brien (born 1960), former United States Attorney for the Central District of California

William Mercer

William W. Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana

William Sapp

William Fletcher Sapp (1824–1890), United States Attorney and Representative from Iowa