The United States Attorney for the District of Columbia is the US Attorney who is responsible for representing the federal government in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Unlike other cities, Washington, D.C. is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the US Congress. By law, the US Attorney is responsible for prosecuting federal crime and all serious crimes committed by adults in the District of Columbia. Therefore, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia serves both as a federal prosecutor (as in the other 92 US Attorneys' offices) and as the local district attorney. The District Attorney General, elected by people from the District, handles local civil litigation and minor offenses.
The current US District Attorney for the District of Columbia is Jessie K. Liu, nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate in September 2017. Liu replaces US Temporary Channing D. Phillips.
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US Attorneys List for the District of Columbia
- John T. Mason: 1801
- Walter Jones, Jr.: 1801-1821
- Thomas Swann: 1821-1833
- Francis Scott Key: 1833-1841
- Philip Richard Fendall II: 1841-1845
- James Hoban, Jr: 1845-1846
- Philip Richard Fendall II: 1849-1853
- Philip Barton Key II: 1853-1859
- Robert Ould: 1859-1861
- Edward S. Carrington: 1861-1876
- George P. Fisher: 1870-1875
- Henry H. Wells: 1875-1880
- George B. Corkhill: 1880-1884
- Augustus S. Worthington: 1884-1888
- John B. Hoge: 1888-1891
- Charles Cleaves Cole: 1891-1893
- Arthur A. Birney: 1893-1897
- Henry E. Davis: 1897-1899
- Thomas H. Anderson: 1899-1901
- Ashley M. Gould: 1901-1903
- Morgan H. Beach: 1903-1905
- Daniel W. Baker: 1905-1910
- Clarence R. Wilson: 1910-1914
- John E. Laskey: 1914-1921
- Peyton Gordon: 1921-1928
- Leo A. Rover: 1928-1934
- Leslie C. Garnett: 1934-1937
- David Andrew Pine: 1938-1940
- Edward Matthew Curran: 1940-1946
- George M. Fay: 1946
- George E. McNeil: 1946-1947
- George M. Fay: 1947-1951
- Charles M. Irelan :: 1951-1953
- Leo A. Rover: 1953-1956
- Oliver Gasch: 1956-1961
- David Campion Acheson: 1961-1965
- John C. Conliff, Jr.: 1965
- David G. Bress: 1965-1969
- Thomas Aquinas Flannery: 1969-1971
- Harold H. Titus, Jr.: 1971-1974
- Earl J. Silbert: 1974-1979
- Carl Raul: 1979
- Charles Ruff: 1979-1981
- Stanley S. Harris: 1982-1983
- Joseph diGenova: 1983-1988
- Timothy J. Reardon III (interim): 1988
- Jay B. Stephens: 1988-1993
- J. Ramsey Johnson (interim): 1993
- Eric Holder: 1993-1997
- Mary Lou Leary (interim): July 1997 - January 1998
- Wilma A. Lewis: January 1998 - April 2001
- Roscoe C. Howard: August 2001 - May 2004
- Kenneth L. Wainstein: May 2004 - 2006
- Jeffrey A. Taylor (interim): September 2006 - May 2009
- Ronald Machen: February 2010 - March 2015
- Vincent Cohen, Jr. (interim): April 2015 - October 2015
- Channing D. Phillips: October 2015 - September 2017
- Jessie K. Liu: September 2017 -
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References
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- Third Anniversary Celebration of US Attorneys, Executive Office for US Attorneys. United States Department of Justice, 1989.
- US Attorney for the District of Columbia
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