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The Office of the United States Attorney was created by the Judiciary Act of 1789, along with the office of Attorney General and United States Marshal.The same act also specified the structure of the Supreme Court of the United States and established inferior courts making up the United States Federal Judiciary, including a district court system.
The United States attorney general is the head of the United States Department of Justice and serves as the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government.The attorney general acts as the principal legal advisor to the president of the United States on all legal matters.
Nicholas William Brown (born April 2, 1977) [1] is an American lawyer serving as the 19th attorney general of Washington since 2025. He served as United States attorney for the Western District of Washington from October 2021 to June 21, 2023, and was elected the Attorney General for Washington in 2024. Brown is the first African American to ...
An attorney at law (or counsellor-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in court on the retainer of clients. [1] As of January 1, 2023, there were 1,331,290 active lawyers in the United States. [ 2 ]
This category includes articles on lawyers who have held the office of United States Attorney, the top attorney for the federal government in each federal court district. For all lawyers in the United States, see Category:American lawyers .
This is a list of United States attorneys appointed by the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden.. President Biden nominated 76 people to be U.S. attorneys: 68 of the nominations were confirmed by the U.S. Senate, five stalled inn the Senate, one was withdrawn after Senate confirmation, and three others were withdrawn before Senate action.
David Charles Weiss (born 1956) is an American attorney. He was nominated by President Donald Trump to be United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, and was retained by President Joe Biden. He has served in that office since February 22, 2018. [1]
The "Act to Establish the Department of Justice" drastically increased the attorney general's responsibilities to include the supervision of all United States attorneys, formerly under the Department of the Interior, the prosecution of all federal crimes, and the representation of the United States in all court actions, barring the use of ...