- Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani (born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from the state of New York. Formerly Mayor of New York City Giuliani is currently seeking the Republican nomination for President. A Democrat and Independent in the 1970s, and a Republican from the 1980s onward, Giuliani served in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney.
- Michael J. Garcia
Michael J. Garcia is the current United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Garcia attended Valley Stream Central High School in New York. Secretary Garcia is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton. He received his Master of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary and his Juris Doctor from Albany Law School, Union University.
- Patrick Fitzgerald
Patrick J. Fitzgerald (born December 22, 1960) is an American attorney and the current United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. On December 30 2003, after then-Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the CIA leak grand jury investigation of the Plame affair due to conflicts of interest, Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, acting as Attorney General in Ashcroft's place, …
- Kevin J. O'Connor
Kevin J. O'Connor is an attorney appointed by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate as Connecticut’s 48th United States Attorney in 2002. As of April 26, 2007, Mr. O'Connor serves as Chief of Staff to United States Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. From January to April 2006, Mr. O'Connor served as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
- Kyle Sampson
D. Kyle Sampson (born in Cedar City, Utah) was the Chief of Staff and Counselor of United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. He resigned on March 12 2007, amid the growing controversy surrounding the firing of eight United States Attorneys in 2006.
- Carol Lam
Carol Lam Former Deputy AG Comey defends Carol Lam , fired U.S. Attorney from San Diego Submitted by crew on 3 May 2007 - 3:52pm. Carol Lam Justice Department US Attorneys
- David Iglesias
David Iglesias was appointed by President George W. Bush as the United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico in August 2001 and confirmed by the US Senate in October 2001. He was one of eight U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration in 2006 for "performance-related issues" under a controversial clause of the PATRIOT Act (see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy). Iglesias had received a positive performance review before he was fired.
- Mary Jo White
Mary Jo White (born December 27, 1947) was the first woman to be U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002. White received her B.S. from the College of William and Mary in 1970 and her law degree from Columbia Law School in 1974. White was appointed to the position by President Bill Clinton. She is noted for having overseen prosecutions of John Gotti and the terrorists responsible for the first World Trade Center bombing of 1993, …
- Christopher J. Christie
Christopher J. Christie was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey on December 7, 2001. He was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on December 20, 2001, and sworn into office on January 17, 2002, by the Honorable Joel A. Pisano, U.S.D.J. Christie graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1984.
- Bob Barr
Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, serving as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and as a member of the Committee on Financial Services. Bob Barr occupies the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union, and serves as a Board Member of the National Rifle Association.
- Paul McNulty
Paul J. McNulty (born January 21, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, having previously served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. He has announced he will leave the post by June of 2007. He was nominated as U.S. Attorney by President George W. Bush and confirmed on September 14, 2001. McNulty was nominated to the position of Deputy Attorney General on October 20, 2005, …
- Michael B. Mukasey
Michael Mukasey , who prepped for the job in the federal judiciary while Gonzales was the president's lapdog, is a rocket scientist by comparison. After hoodwinking the Senate into confirming him because he promised that he'd have to look into this torture stuff, Mukasey has gone to great lengths to defend its use while approving an "independent" investigation into the darkest of all the dark aspects of the Bush administration that is anything but.
- Bud Cummins
Harry Earnest "Bud" Cummins III, was born in Enid, Oklahoma. He is a former United States Attorney of six years in the Eastern District of Arkansas. After moving to Little Rock, and working in the construction business, Cummins obtained a law degree from the William H. Bowen School of Law. Subsequently, he was a law clerk for United States Magistrate Judge John F. Forster, Jr., and later was a clerk to Chief United States District Judge Stephen M. Reasoner.
- John McKay
John Larkin McKay (born 19 June 1956 in Seattle, Washington) is a former United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington.
- Johnny Sutton
Johnny Sutton is the United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas. Sutton chairs the Attorney General's Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys.
- James B. Comey
James B. Comey was Deputy Attorney General of the United States, serving in President George W. Bush's administration. As Deputy Attorney General, Comey became the second-highest ranking official in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and ran the day-to-day operations of the Department, serving in that position from December 2003 through August 2005. He was appointed to the position after serving as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
- Samuel Alito
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (born April 1, 1950) is the junior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Educated at Yale Law School, Alito served as a United States attorney and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit prior to joining the Supreme Court.
- Kevin V. Ryan
Kevin V. Ryan is a former United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. His nomination was recommended by Joseph P. Russoniello, a previous holder of the same office. President George W. Bush nominated Ryan on May 15, 2002 and confirmed by the United States Senate in July 2002. Ryan is part of the ongoing controversy over the firing of nine U.S. Attorneys by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Ryan announced his resignation in January 2007.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is the Junior Senator from the state of Rhode Island. A Democrat, he previously served as United States Attorney (1994-1998) and state Attorney General for Rhode Island.Whitehouse was born in New York City, New York, the son of Mary Celine Rand and career diplomat Charles S. Whitehouse , and grandson of diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse . He graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and from Yale University in 1978.
- Debra Wong Yang
Debra W. Yang was the United States Attorney for the Central District of California. She was appointed in May 2002 by President George W. Bush, who made her the first Asian American woman to serve as a United States Attorney. The appointment was controversial as several older and more experienced candidates were not chosen. Yang was born in 1959 to Cantonese parents in Los Angeles. Her father was a successful CPA. The family later moved to Eagle Rock.
- Jeffrey A. Taylor
Jeffrey A. Taylor is the interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.
- Louis Freeh
Louis Joseph Freeh (b. January 6, 1950) was the 10th Director of the F.B.I. He began his career as an agent of the F.B.I., and was later an assistant U.S. Attorney and a U.S. District Court judge. He is now a lawyer in the private sector.
- Timothy Griffin
John Timothy Griffin (born August 21, 1968), was an interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas from December 2006 to June 2007. He was appointed by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as an interim US Attorney to succeeding Bud Cummins. The circumstances surrounding Griffin's appointment were disclosed during the controversy about dismissed U.S. attorneys; Cummins was dismissed to make the position available to Griffin.
- Ted Stevens
Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens (born November 18 1923) is the senior United States Senator from Alaska. As the longest serving Republican in the Senate, Stevens served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2007. Stevens has had a six-decade career of government service, beginning with his service in World War II. In the 1950s, he held senior positions in the Eisenhower Interior department.
- Asa Hutchinson
Asa Hutchinson (born December 3, 1950) is a former U.S. Attorney for the Fort Smith-based Western District of Arkansas, U.S. Congressman from the Third District of Arkansas, Director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the first-ever Under Secretary for Border & Transportation Security at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. A graduate of Bob Jones University and with a law degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, …
- Dick Thornburgh
Richard L. "Dick" Thornburgh (born July 16, 1932) is a lawyer and Republican politician who served as the Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987, and then as the U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991.
- David L. Huber
David L. Huber is an American attorney currently serving as United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. Huber was nominated by President George W. Bush and he was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 9, 2003. Prior to his confirmation, he was an Assistant United States Attorney specializing in civil defensive litigation.
- Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano, elected governor that fall, made the newspaper's mission her own. Fixing CPS, she announced, would be one of her top priorities. Children needed to be protected.
- Ken Salazar
Senator Salazar, one of three Latino senators currently in office, is a fifth generation Colorado farmer and rancher. Despite pride in his Hispanic heritage, he is emphatic that he represents national interests in security, energy independence, agriculture, health care and the environment, and has often reached across the aisle to achieve his legislative goals. "I am a Senator for Mexican-Americans, for Latinos, for Afro-Americans, for White women, men.
- Todd Graves
Todd Graves was United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. He took his oath of office on September 17, 2001, initially as an interim United States attorney appointed by the U.S. District Court, on September 17, 2001, and his presidential appointment by George W. Bush was formally confirmed by the United States Senate on October 11, 2001. He resigned effective March 24, 2006. Graves initially appeared on a list of 12 U.S. attorneys slated to be dismissed.
- Daniel Bogden
Daniel G. Bogden is most well known for serving as United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, and being part of the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. He was nominated for the position on September 4, 2001, and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on October 23, 2001. Mr. Bogden holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, …
- Bradley Schlozman
Bradley J. Schlozman (born February 6, 1971) was the head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, until he served a year as interim US Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. He was appointed by Alberto Gonzales and assumed office on March 23, 2006, …
- Thomas M. Dibiagio
Thomas M. DiBiagio is a former United States Attorney in the state of Maryland. After eight U.S. attorneys were fired by the Bush administration in 2006 for performance-related issues under a clause of the PATRIOT Act (see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy), stated in March 2007 that he was ousted because of political pressure over public corruption investigations into the administration of then-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
- Rachel Paulose
Rachel Kunjummen Paulose (born March 12, 1973, Kerala, India), the current U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota. She is the first Indian American woman, the youngest attorney, and the first woman in Minnesota to hold this post.
- Steven M. Biskupic
Steven M. Biskupic (45), is the current US Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin serving first under Attorneys General John Ashcroft and then Alberto Gonzales. He was appointed by George W. Bush in May 2002. In 2007, Biskupic and his office came under review by US Congressional and Senate investigators looking at the 2006 Dismissal of U.S. Attorneys controversy.
- Michael Sullivan
Michael Sullivan is the current United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Sullivan was notable for his prosecution of airport workers arrested at Logan Airport as part of "Operation Tarmac". The Logan 19 were airport workers, arrested as part of Operation Tarmac, because they had lied about their nationality on the job applications. According to the Boston Phoenix: :"It’s true that life has changed since September 11. But with one exception, …
- William W. Mercer
William W. Mercer is a United States Attorney for the District of Montana, as well as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice.. In September of 2006, Mercer was nominated by President Bush as Associate Attorney General, served as Acting Associate Attorney General until June 22, 2007, but resigned before confirmed. Mercer is a graduate of the University of Montana.
- Michael A. Battle
Michael A. Battle was the Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) at the United States Department of Justice until he resigned, effective March 16, 2007. He was the person who informed seven United States Attorneys on December 7, 2006 that they were being dismissed (see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy).
- Paula D. Silsby
Paula D. Silsby (born ca. 1951) is the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine. Both her father and her grandfather have been Superior Court justices. Her father, Judge Herbert T. Silsby, is a Superior Court justice in Ellsworth, Maine. She obtained her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1973 and her J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law in 1976. She served as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine from 1977 until 2001.
- Leura Canary
Leura Garrett Canary is the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. She is married to Republican politician William (Bill) Canary. She graduated from Huntingdon College in 1978 and later attended law school at University of Alabama. Before becoming a US Attorney "Leura had been a career litigator, …