The U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland is the chief federal law enforcement officer for the State of Maryland. Since October 2021, the

United States Attorney United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts. Each U.S. attorney serves as the United States' chief federal ...

for the District of Maryland is Erek Barron. The

United States District Court for the District of Maryland The United States District Court for the District of Maryland (in case citations, D. Md.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Maryland. Appeals from the District of Maryland are taken to the United States Court ...

has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney.

Organization

The Office is organized into divisions handling civil, criminal, and civil rights matters.

U.S. Attorneys for the District of Maryland

Richard Potts Richard Potts (July 19, 1753November 26, 1808) was an American politician and jurist. Early life and career Potts was born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and lived there until he moved with his family to the Barbados Islands in 1757. He return ...

1789–1792 *Zebulon Hollingsworth 1792–1806 *

John Stephen John Stephen (28 August 1934 – 1 February 2004), dubbed by the media "The £1m Mod" and "The King Of Carnaby Street", was one of the most important fashion figures of the 1960s. Stephen was the first individual to identify and sell to the yo ...

1806–1810 * Thomas Beale Dorsey 1810–1812 * Elias Glenn 1812–1824 *Nathaniel Williams 1824–1841 * Zaccheus Collins Lee 1841–1845 *William L. Marshall 1845–1850 * Zaccheus Collins Lee 1850–1853 *William M. Addison 1853–1862 *William Price 1862–1865 *William J. Jones 1865–1866 *William Price 1866–1867 *Andrew Sterett Ridgley 1867–1869 *Archibald Stirling Jr. 1869–1886 * Thomas Gordon Hayes 1886–1890 *John T. Ensor 1890–1894 * William L. Marbury 1894–1898 * John C. Rose 1898–1910 *John P. Hill 1910–1915 *Samuel K. Dennis 1915–1920 *Robert R. Carman 1920–1922 *Amos W. W. Woodcock 1922–1931 * Simon E. Sobeloff 1931–1934 * Bernard J. Flynn 1934–1953 * George Cochran Doub 1953–1956 * Walter E. Black Jr. 1956–1957 *Leon H. A. Pierson 1957–1961 * Joseph D. Tydings 1961–1963 *Robert H. Kernon 1963 *Thomas J. Kenney 1963–1967 * Stephen H. Sachs 1967–1970 *

George Beall George Beall, Jr. (February 26, 1729 – October 15, 1807) was a wealthy landowner in Maryland and Georgetown, Washington, D.C., Georgetown in what is now Washington, D.C., son of George Beall, Sr. (1695-1780) and Elizabeth Brooke (1699-1748); th ...

1970–1975 *Jervis S. Finney 1975–1978 *Russell T. Baker 1978–1981 *Herbert Better* 1981 * J. Frederick Motz 1981–1985 * Catherine C. Blake* 1985–1986 *Breckinridge L. Willcox 1986–1991 * Richard D. Bennett 1991–1993 *Gary P. Jordan* 1993 * Lynne A. Battaglia 1993–2001 *Stephen Schenning* 2001 * Thomas M. DiBiagio 2001–2005 *Allen F. Loucks* 2005 *

Rod Rosenstein Rod Jay Rosenstein (; born January 13, 1965) is an American attorney who served as the 37th United States deputy attorney general from April 2017 until May 2019. Prior to his appointment, he served as a United States attorney for the District ...

2005–2017 *Stephen M. Schenning* 2017–2018 * Robert K. Hur 2018–2021 *Jonathan F. Lenzner* 2021 * Erek Barron 2021–present *

References

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External links

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