United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Website	https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny

The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) is the chief US representative in federal criminal and civil proceedings in eight New York counties: King ( Manhattan ), Bronx , Westchester , Putnam , Rockland , Orange , Dutchess and Sullivan . The prosecution-led cases will be tried in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York .

structure

The public prosecutor's office is divided into sections for civil and criminal matters. It has two departments; one is in Manhattan and the other is in White Plains . The United States Attorney is assisted by approximately 220 Assistant United States Attorneys.

List of US Attorneys for the Southern District of New York

In 1814, what was then the District of New York was divided into the Northern and Southern Districts, and the following year the first US attorneys were appointed for the new districts.

• Jonathan Fisk : 1815-1819
• Robert L. Tillotson : 1819-1828
• John Duer : 1828 – April 1829
• James Alexander Hamilton : April 1829-1834
• William M. Price : 1834-10. December 1838
• Benjamin F. Butler : December 10, 1838–1841
• Ogden Hoffman : 1841-1845
• Benjamin F. Butler : 1845-1848
• Charles McVean : Sept-Dec. 1848
• Lorenzo B. Shepard : December 1848 or January 1849 – April 1849
• Jonathan Prescott Hall : April 1849-1853
• Charles O'Conor : 1853-854
• John McKeon : 1854-1858
• Theodore Sedgwick: 1858-1859
• James I. Roosevelt : 1859-1861
• Edward Delafield Smith : April 1861-April 1865
• Daniel S. Dickinson : April 1865-12. April 1866
• Samuel G. Courtney : April 1866-25. April 1869
• Edwards Pierrepont : April 25, 1869-20. July 1870
• Noah Davis : July 20, 1870-31. December 1872
• George Bliss Jr .: December 31, 1872-24. January 1877
• Stewart L. Woodford : Jan. 24, 1877-12. March 1883
• Elihu Root : March 12, 1883-6. July 1885
• William Dorsheimer : July 6, 1885–1. March 1886
• Stephen A. Walker : March 1, 1886-16. September 1889
• Edward J. Mitchell : September 16, 1889-1. February 1894
• Henry C. Platt (acting): February 1, 1894–23. July 1894
• Wallace Macfarlane : July 23, 1894-January 1898
• Henry Lawrence Burnett : January 1898 – January 1906
• Henry L. Stimson : January 1906-8. April 1909
• Henry A. Wise: April 8, 1909-7. May 1913
• Hudson Snowden Marshall : May 7, 1913-1917
• Francis Gordon Caffey : 1917 – June 1921
• William Hayward: June 1921–2. March 1925
• Emory Buckner : March 2, 1925-6. April 1927
• Charles H. Tuttle : April 6, 1927-29. September 1930
• Robert E. Manley (acting): September 29, 1930 – January 1931
• George Z. Medal : January 1931-21. November 1933
• Thomas E. Dewey (acting): November 22, 1933–26. December 1933
• Martin Conboy : December 26, 1933-16. May 1935
• Francis WH Adams (acting): May 16, 1935-20. November 1935
• Lamar Hardy : November 20, 1935 - March 1939
• Gregory Francis Noonan : 1938? –1939?
• John T. Cahill : March 1939-March 1941
• Mathias F. Correa (acting): March 1941 – July 1941
• Mathias F. Correa: July 1941-10. June 1943
• Howard Francis Corcoran (acting): June 10, 1943–2. August 1943
• James BM McNally : Aug. 2, 1943-9. October 1944
• John FX McGohey (acting): October 9, 1944 - January 1945
• John FX McGohey: January 1945 – October 1949
• Irving H. Saypol (acting): October 1949–13. April 1950
• Irving H. Saypol: April 13, 1950-18. September 1951
• Myles Lane : September 18, 1951-1. April 1953
• J. Edward Lumbard : April 1, 1953-11. July 1955
• Lloyd Francis MacMahon (interim): July 11, 1955–1. September 1955
• Paul W. Williams : September 1, 1955-9. July 1958
• Arthur H. Christy (acting): July 9, 1958–1959
• Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr .: 1959-31. January 1961
• Morton S. Robson (acting): January 31, 1961–18. April 1961
• Robert M. Morgenthau : April 18, 1961–1962 (resigned to run for governor)
• Vincent L. Broderick (acting): 1962
• Robert M. Morgenthau: 1962-16. January 1970 (reappointed by President Kennedy)
• Whitney North Seymour Jr .: Jan 16, 1970 - June 4, 1973
• Paul J. Curran : June 4, 1973 - October 31, 1975
• Thomas J. Cahill (interim): October 31, 1975 - March 1, 1976
• Robert B. Fiske : March 1, 1976-1980
• William M. Tendy (acting): 1980
• John S. Martin Jr .: 1980 - June 3, 1983
• Rudolph Giuliani : June 3, 1983 - January 1, 1989
• Benito Romano (interim): January 1, 1989 - October 16, 1989
• Otto G. Obermaier  : October 16, 1989 - June 1993
• Mary Jo White : June 1993 - January 7, 2002
• James B. Comey : Jan. 7, 2002-15. December 2003
• David N. Kelley (interim): December 15, 2003 - September 2005
• Michael J. Garcia : September 2005–1. December 2008
• Lev L. Dassin (acting): December 1, 2008 - August 13, 2009
• Preet Bharara : August 13, 2009 - March 11, 2017
• Joon Kim (acting): March 11, 2017 - January 5, 2018
• Geoffrey Berman (acting): January 5, 2018 - April 25, 2018
• Geoffrey Berman: April 25, 2018 - June 20, 2020
• Audrey Strauss (acting): since June 20, 2020

Assistant Attorneys who became known in other roles

• Bob Arum - boxing promoter
• Neil Barofsky - Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program
• Bernard Bell - Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law and Herbert Hannoch Scholar at the Rutgers School of Law – Newark
• Thomas E. Dewey - New York Governor (1943–1954) and unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate in the 1944 and 1948 elections
• Louis Freeh - former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Patrick Fitzgerald - US Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois
• Felix Frankfurter - Associate Justice at the US Supreme Court
• Rudolph Giuliani - Former Mayor of New York City
  
• John Marshall Harlan II - Associate Justice in the US Supreme Court
• Arthur L. Liman - Criminal Defense Attorney
• Michael Mukasey - former US Attorney General
• Thomas Francis Murphy - federal attorney and judge in New York City ; Prosecutor in the two trials against Alger Hiss
• Charles Rangel - Congressman from New York
• Henry Dwight Sedgwick - attorney and author
• Franklin A. Thomas - former director of the Ford Foundation

Web links

• United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Official Website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Organization and Operation, US Attorneys Office
2. ↑ “Justice-Power Struggle US Attorney Berman Resigns” , tagesschau.de, June 20, 2020. Access date: June 21, 2020.