The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice,and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States. The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all legal matters. The attorney general is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States.
United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts. Each U.S. attorney serves as the United States' chief federal criminal prosecutor in their judicial district and represents the U.S. federal government in civil litigation in federal and state court within their geographic jurisdiction. U.S. attorneys must be nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate,after which they serve four-year terms.
Jones Day is an American multinational law firm based in Washington,D.C. As of 2023,it is one of the largest law firms in the United States with 2,302 attorneys,and among the highest grossing in the world with revenues of $2.5 billion. Originally headquartered in Cleveland,Ohio,Jones Day ranks first in both M&A league tables and the 2017 U.S. Law Firm Brand Index. Jones Day has represented over half of the companies in the Fortune 500,including Goldman Sachs,General Motors,McDonald's,and Bridgestone. The firm has also represented former President Donald Trump.
The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in eight New York counties:New York (Manhattan),Bronx,Westchester,Putnam,Rockland,Orange,Dutchess,and Sullivan. Established by the Judiciary Act of 1789,the office represents the United States government in criminal and civil cases across the country. The SDNY handles a broad array of cases,including but not limited to those involving white collar crime,domestic terrorism,cybercrime,public corruption,organized crime,and civil rights disputes.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana was created in 1928 by an act of Congress that split Indiana into two separate districts,northern and southern. As part of the act,the Northern District was divided into three divisions,South Bend,Fort Wayne,and Hammond. Appeals from this court are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The court has eight judges and four magistrate judges. As of October 2021,the United States attorney is Clifford D. Johnson.
The first United States attorney to serve while Indiana was still a territory was Elijah Sparks in 1813. His successor,William Hendricks,witnessed Indiana's admission to the Union as the 19th state in 1816. On April 21,1928,the federal district for the State of Indiana was divided into the Northern and Southern Judicial Districts,resulting in the creation of the Office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana. The Northern District of Indiana consists of the northern 32 counties of the State of Indiana. The district has three staffed offices in Hammond,South Bend and Fort Wayne. By contrast,the State of Indiana has 92 prosecuting attorneys located in each county seat.
Theodore Edward Rokita is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 44th and current Attorney General of Indiana. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he served two terms as Secretary of State of Indiana from 2002 to 2010. When Rokita was elected to office in 2002 at age 32,he became the youngest secretary of state in the United States at the time.
David E. Nahmias is an American lawyer who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 2021 to 2022. He is the former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.
Robert Trimble was a lawyer and jurist who served as Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals,as United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1826 to his death in 1828. During his brief Supreme Court tenure he authored several majority opinions,including the decision in Ogden v. Saunders,which was the only majority opinion that Chief Justice John Marshall ever dissented from during his 34 years on the Court.
Thomas E. Delahanty II was an American lawyer and former judge. He was the former United States Attorney for the District of Maine.
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated over 400 individuals for federal judgeships during his presidency. Of these nominations,Congress confirmed 329 judgeships,173 during the 111th &112th Congresses and 156 during the 113th and 114th Congresses.
On March 10,2017,Jeff Sessions,who was appointed United States attorney general by President Donald Trump,requested the resignations of 46 United States attorneys. Some resignations were declined by Sessions or Trump. Media outlets described Sessions' move as abrupt and unexpected but not unprecedented. It is typical that when a new president enters office,many sitting U.S. attorneys depart on their own initiative before their term in office has concluded,or they are asked to resign. The other 47 U.S. attorney posts were either already vacant by the end of Barack Obama's administration or the incumbent U.S. attorney had resigned at the beginning of Trump's administration.
R. Trent Shores is an American attorney who was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma from 2017 to 2021.
Thomas Lee Kirsch II is an American attorney and jurist who has served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since December 2020. He was previously the United States attorney for the Northern District of Indiana from October 2017 to December 2020.
David L. Anderson is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California from 2019 to 2021. Prior to becoming a U.S. Attorney,he practiced law at the law firm of Sidley Austin.
Zachary Augustus Myers is an American lawyer who is the United States attorney for the Southern District of Indiana.
Clifford Darnell Johnson is an American lawyer who has served as the United States attorney for the Northern District of Indiana since October 2021.
Derek Read Molter is an American lawyer from Indiana who serves as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court since 2022,after he was appointed by Governor Eric Holcomb. He previously served as a judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals from 2021 to 2022.
