United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey
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The U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey is the chief federal law enforcement officer in New Jersey. On December 16, 2021, Philip R. Sellinger was sworn in as U.S. Attorney.[1] The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. attorney.
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Department overview | |
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Formed | September 24, 1789 by the Judiciary Act of 1789 |
Jurisdiction | District of New Jersey |
Headquarters | Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
Department executive | |
Parent Department | United States Department of Justice |
Website | justice |
The office is organized into divisions handling civil, criminal, and appellate matters, in addition to the Special Prosecutions Division, which oversees political corruption investigations.[2] The District of New Jersey is also divided into three vicinages: Newark, Trenton and Camden, with the southern two offices supervised by a Deputy U.S. Attorney. The office employs approximately 170 Assistant U.S. Attorneys.[3] It is the fifth-largest U.S. Attorney's Office in the nation, behind those in the District of Columbia, Los Angeles, Manhattan, and Miami.[4]
Prominent assistant US attorneys
U.S. Attorney | Term started | Term ended | Appointed by | |
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Richard Stockton | 1789 | 1791 | George Washington | |
Abraham Ogden | 1791 | 1798 | ||
Lucius Horatio Stockton | 1798 | 1801 | John Adams | |
Frederick Frelinghuysen | 1801 | 1801 | ||
George C. Maxwell | 1801 | 1803 | Thomas Jefferson | |
William S. Pennington | 1803 | 1804 | ||
Joseph McIlvaine | 1804 | 1824 | ||
Lucius Q.C. Elmer | 1824 | 1829 | James Monroe | |
Garret D. Wall | 1829 | 1835 | Andrew Jackson | |
James S. Green | 1835 | 1850 | ||
William Halstead | 1850 | 1853 | Millard Fillmore | |
Garret S. Cannon | 1853 | 1861 | Franklin Pierce | |
Anthony Q. Keasbey | 1861 | 1886 | Abraham Lincoln | |
Job H. Lippincott | 1886 | 1887 | Grover Cleveland | |
Samuel F. Bigelow | 1887 | 1888 | ||
George S. Duryee | 1888 | 1890 | ||
Henry S. White | 1890 | 1894 | Benjamin Harrison | |
John W. Beekman | 1894 | 1896 | Grover Cleveland | |
J. Kearney Rice | 1896 | 1900 | ||
David Ogden Watkins | 1900 | 1903 | William McKinley | |
Cortlandt Parker, Jr. | 1903 | 1903 | Theodore Roosevelt | |
John Beam Vreeland | 1903 | 1913 | ||
J. Warren Davis | 1913 | 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | |
Charles Francis Lynch | 1916 | 1919 | ||
Joseph L. Bodine | 1919 | 1920 | ||
Elmer H. Geran | 1920 | 1922 | ||
Walter G. Winne | 1922 | 1928 | Warren Harding | |
Phillip Forman | 1928 | 1932 | Calvin Coolidge | |
Harlan Besson | 1932 | 1935 | Herbert Hoover | |
John J. Quinn | 1935 | 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
William Francis Smith | 1940 | 1941 | ||
Charles M. Phillips | 1941 | 1943 | ||
Thorn Lord | 1943 | 1945 | ||
Edgar H. Rossbach | 1945 | 1948 | Harry Truman | |
Isaiah Matlack | 1948 | 1948 | ||
Alfred E. Modarelli | 1948 | 1951 | ||
Grover C. Richman, Jr. | 1951 | 1953 | ||
William F. Tompkins | 1953 | 1954 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
Raymond Del Tufo, Jr. | 1954 | 1956 | ||
Herman Scott | 1956 | 1956 | ||
Chester A. Weidenburner | 1956 | 1961 | ||
David M. Satz, Jr. | 1961 | 1969 | John F. Kennedy | |
Donald Horowitz | 1969 | 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
Frederick B. Lacey | 1969 | 1971 | Richard Nixon | |
Herbert J. Stern | 1971 | 1974 | ||
Jonathan L. Goldstein | 1974 | 1977 | ||
Robert J. Del Tufo | 1977 | 1980 | Jimmy Carter | |
William W. Robertson | 1980 | 1981 | ||
W. Hunt Dumont | 1981 | 1985 | Ronald Reagan | |
Thomas W. Greelish | 1985 | 1987 | ||
Samuel Alito | 1987 | 1990 | ||
Michael Chertoff | 1990 | 1994 | George H. W. Bush | |
Faith S. Hochberg | 1994 | 1999 | Bill Clinton | |
Robert J. Cleary | 1999 | 2002 | ||
Christopher J. Christie | 2002 | 2008 | George W. Bush | |
Ralph J. Marra, Jr. | 2008 | 2009 | ||
Paul J. Fishman | 2009 | 2017 | Barack Obama | |
William E. Fitzpatrick | 2017 | 2018 | Donald Trump | |
Craig Carpenito | 2018 | 2021 | ||
Rachael A. Honig | January 6, 2021 | December 15, 2021 | ||
Philip R. Sellinger | December 16, 2021 | Incumbent | Joe Biden |
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