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Reports to | The Attorney General |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
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The United States attorney for the District of Columbia (USADC) is responsible for representing the federal government in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia has two divisions, the Civil Division. And the Criminal Division. The Civil Division is responsible for representing federal agencies in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and "in appeals before the U."S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Unlike the states, District of Columbia is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. By statute, the U.S. attorney is responsible for prosecuting both federal crimes and all serious crimes committed by adults in the District of Columbia. Therefore, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia serves as both the federal prosecutor (as in the other 92 U.S. attorneys' offices) and as the local district attorney. The attorney general of the District of Columbia, who is elected by the people of the district, handles local civil litigation and minor infractions, comparable with a city attorney.
Because its jurisdiction covers the precincts of the United States Congress and the headquarters of several U.S. government agencies, the USADC is considered one of the most influential U.S. attorneys in the United States, along with the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Appointment to the role is considered a significant career achievement for prosecutors.
List of U.S. attorneys for the District of Columbiaβ»
- John T. Mason: 1801
- Walter Jones Jr.: 1801β1821
- Thomas Swann: 1821β1833
- Francis Scott Key: 1833β1841
- Philip Richard Fendall II: 1841β1845
- James Hoban Jr.: 1845β1846
- Philip Barton Key II: 1846β1849
- Philip Richard Fendall II: 1849β1853
- Philip Barton Key II: 1853β1859
- Robert Ould: 1859β1861
- Edward S. Carrington: 1861β1876
- George P. Fisher: 1870β1875
- Henry H. Wells: 1875β1880
- George B. Corkhill: 1880β1884
- Augustus S. Worthington: 1884β1888
- John B. Hoge: 1888β1891
- Charles Cleaves Cole: 1891β1893
- Arthur A. Birney: 1893β1897
- Henry E. Davis: 1897β1899
- Thomas H. Anderson: 1899β1901
- Ashley M. Gould: 1901β1903
- Morgan H. Beach: 1903β1905
- Daniel W. Baker: 1905β1910
- Clarence R. Wilson: 1910β1914
- John E. Laskey: 1914β1921
- Peyton Gordon: 1921β1928
- Leo A. Rover: 1928β1934
- Leslie C. Garnett: 1934β1937
- David Andrew Pine: 1938β1940
- Edward Matthew Curran: 1940β1946
- George M. Fay: 1946
- George E. McNeil: 1946β1947
- George M. Fay: 1947β1951
- Charles M. Irelan:: 1951β1953
- Leo A. Rover: 1953β1956
- Oliver Gasch: 1956β1961
- David Campion Acheson: 1961β1965
- John C. Conliff Jr.: 1965
- David G. Bress: 1965β1969
- Thomas Aquinas Flannery: 1969β1971
- Harold H. Titus Jr.: 1971β1974
- Earl J. Silbert: 1974β1979
- Carl Raul: 1979
- Charles Ruff: 1979β1981
- Stanley S. Harris: 1982β1983
- Joseph diGenova: 1983β1988
- Timothy J. Reardon III (interim): 1988
- Jay B. Stephens: 1988β1993
- J. Ramsey Johnson (interim): 1993
- Eric Holder: 1993 β June 13, 1997
- Mary Lou Leary (interim): July 1997 β January 1998
- Wilma A. Lewis: January 1998 β April 2001
- Roscoe C. Howard: August 2001 β May 2004
- Kenneth L. Wainstein: May 2004 β September 28, 2006
- Jeffrey A. Taylor (interim): September 28, 2006 β May 28, 2009
- Ronald Machen: February 2010 β March 31, 2015
- Vincent Cohen Jr. (interim): April 1, 2015 β October 19, 2015
- Channing D. Phillips: October 19, 2015 β September 24, 2017
- Jessie Liu: September 24, 2017 β January 31, 2020
- Timothy Shea (interim) January 31, 2020 β May 19, 2020
- Michael R. Sherwin (interim) May 19, 2020 β March 3, 2021
- Channing D. Phillips (interim) March 3, 2021 β November 5, 2021
- Matthew M. Graves: November 5, 2021 β present
Referencesβ»
- ^ "District of Columbia Superior Court bio of Ramsey Johnson" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
- ^ Female Assistant Is Named Interim Prosecutor for D.C., The Washington Post, July 19, 1997
- ^ Wilma A. Lewis β81 nominated to be assistant secretary for Land and Mineral Management, Harvard Law Today, May 12, 2009
- ^ United States Attorney Taylor announces resignation
- ^ Taylor Withdraws US Attorney Confirmation Bid after Losing Norton Support
- ^ Acting United States Attorney Vincent H. Cohen, Jr. to Step Down
Sourcesβ»
- Bicentennial Celebration of the U.S. Attorneys, Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys. United States Department of Justice, 1989.
- United States Attorney for the District of Columbia