Andrew Byerly Birge is a former United States attorney for the Western District of Michigan. Birge was appointed U.S. attorney by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan on March 16, 2018. [1] [2] and served until his successor, Mark Totten, was sworn in on May 5, 2022. [3]
The United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan is the federal district court with jurisdiction over the western portion of the state of Michigan, including the entire Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula from Lansing westward.
Events from the year 1901 in Michigan.
Joseph Patrick Kelly is an American attorney and politician who is the 42nd lieutenant governor of Nebraska, since 2023. He served as the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska from 2018 to 2021. He formally serves as chief of the criminal division for the attorney general of Nebraska.
Ella Mae Backus (1863–1938) was an American lawyer who became the first female Assistant U.S. Attorney in the State of Michigan, and the first female attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan. At the time, she was one of only six female attorneys in the entire Department of Justice. Backus was originally employed as a stenographer in Traverse City, Michigan from 1891 to 1895. In 1895, she became a lawyer.
Thomas Tullidge Cullen is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia since 2020. He served as a United States attorney for the same district from 2018 to 2020.
Mark Timothy Pittman is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and former judge of the Texas Court of Appeals.
Timothy J. Downing is an American attorney and former politician who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma from 2019 to 2021. He represented the 42nd district in the Oklahoma House of Representatives as a Republican from 2016 to 2018. He currently serves as a judge on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.
Stephanie Dawkins Davis is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and a former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Rachael Splaine Rollins is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. attorney for District of Massachusetts from 2022 to 2023. Before that, she was the district attorney for Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Tana Lin is a Taiwanese-American lawyer who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Nicholas William Brown is an American lawyer who served as United States attorney for the Western District of Washington from October 2021 to June 21, 2023.
Jessica Diane Aber is an American lawyer who is the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Christopher Robert Kavanaugh is an American attorney who is the United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia.
Mark Allen Totten is an American lawyer who has served as the United States attorney for the Western District of Michigan since 2022.
Nancy Jear Waples is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court since 2022.
Kevin Gafford Ritz is an American lawyer who has served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee since September 2022. He is a nominee to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
United States v. Ogoshi is a pending case in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. It is considered part of Project Safe Childhood.