After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1986,Heaphy taught at a private school for a year and then joined the staff of Senator Joe Biden (D-Del.) He returned to Charlottesville,Virginia in 1988 to attend law school,graduating in 1991.[3]
In 2003,Heaphy joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Virginia based in Charlottesville,Virginia. After three years,Heaphy returned to private practice,serving as a partner with the law firm of McGuireWoods.[5] In 2009,Heaphy was nominated by President Barack Obama to became the United States attorney for the Western District of Virginia,assuming that post on December 11,2009.[4][6]
Return to private practice
He left the U.S. Attorney's office in December 2014 to join Hunton &Williams.[6]
In 2016,Heaphy founded a nonprofit organization that provides low-interest loans to formerly incarcerated persons,The Fountain Fund.
In 2017,Heaphy authored a report,commissioned by the city of Charlottesville,on its handling of the August 2017 Unite the Right rally.[7]
Heaphy served as an assistant Virginia attorney general and as counsel for the University of Virginia before taking a leave of absence from both positions in August 2021 after being appointed as chief investigative counsel for the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.[8] He was fired as university counsel while on leave from that position by Virginia's new Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares in January 2022.[9]
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