President Joe Biden on Monday nominated eight diverse lawyers to lead U.S. attorney’s offices, most of whom would be the first Black or female prosecutors to lead their districts (article available here).
Among the nominees are six lawyers who would be the first Black or female Black U.S. attorneys in their districts.
Rachael Rollins, the district attorney in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, would be the first Black woman to serve as U.S. attorney in that state.
Erek Barron, a current state lawmaker who has served as a prosecutor and as a policy adviser to Biden on the Senate Judiciary Committee, would be the first Black U.S. attorney in the District of Maryland.
Zachary Myers, who specializes in national security and cyber matters as a federal prosecutor in Maryland and who the White House says would be the first Black U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Indiana.
Clifford Johnson, who would be the first Black lawyer to lead the Northern District of Indiana.
Justice Department environmental lawyer Vanessa Waldref would be the first woman to run the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Washington. And Nicholas Brown, who has been a federal prosecutor and general counsel to the governor, would be the first Black lawyer to run the Western District of Washington.
Also nominated is law firm partner and former federal public corruption prosecutor Matthew M. Graves as the U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia.