The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in five New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 counties: Kings (Brooklyn), Queens

Queens

Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....

, Richmond (Staten Island), Nassau

Nassau County, New York

Nassau County is a suburban county on Long Island, east of New York City in the U.S. state of New York, within the New York Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,339,532...

 and Suffolk

Suffolk County, New York

Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,493,350. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came...

. The current incumbent is Loretta E. Lynch

Loretta E. Lynch

Loretta E. Lynch is the current United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She has held this position since 2010. She previously held this position from 1999-2001. During her first term as US Attorney Lynch oversaw prosecution of the New York police officers in the Abner Louima...

, who was appointed by President Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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 on January 20, 2010, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 22, and was sworn into office on May 3.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the entirety of Long Island and Staten Island...

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

History

The Eastern District of New York was formed by taking away these five counties from the Southern District of New York

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is a federal district court. Appeals from the Southern District of New York are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (in case...

 in 1865.

List of U.S. Attorneys for the Eastern District of New York

• Benjamin D. Silliman: 1865 - 1866
• Benjamin F. Tracy
  Benjamin F. Tracy
  Benjamin Franklin Tracy was a United States political figure who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1889 through 1893, during the administration of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison.-Biography:...
  
  : 1866 - 1877
• Asa W. Tenney: 1877 - 1885
• Mark D. Wilbur: 1885 - 1889
• Jesse Johnson: 1889 - 1894
• John Oakey: 1894
• James L. Bennett: 1894 - 1898
• George H. Pettit: 1898 - 1902
• William J. Young: 1902 - 1915
• Louis R. Bick: 1915
• Melville J. France: 1915 - 1919
• James D. Bell: 1919
• LeRoy W. Ross: 1919 - 1921
• Wallace E. J. Collins: 1921
• Ralph C. Greene: 1921 - 1925
• William A. DeGroot: 1925 - 1929
• Howard W. Ameli: 1929 - 1934
• Leo J. Hickey: 1934 - Dec. 25, 1937 (died in office)
• Harold St. Leo O'Dougherty (interim): sworn in Dec. 27, 1937 - 1938
• Michael F. Walsh
  Michael F. Walsh
  Michael F. Walsh was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...
  
  : 1938 - 1939 (resigned, appointed Secretary of State of New York
  Secretary of State of New York
  The Secretary of State of New York is a cabinet officer in the government of the U.S. state of New York.The current Secretary of State of New York is Cesar A...
  
  )
• Vine H. Smith (interim): 1939
• Harold M. Kennedy: 1939 - 1944 (resigned, appointed judge of this Court])
• T. Vincent Quinn
  T. Vincent Quinn
  Thomas Vincent Quinn of Jackson Heights, Queens was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1949 to 1951.-Career:* Fordham University Law School, graduated 1924* Assistant District Attorney, Queens County, NY, 1931-1934....
  
   (interim): 1944 - 1945
• Miles F. McDonald: 1945 (resigned, elected Kings County D.A. in November 1945)
• T. Vincent Quinn
  T. Vincent Quinn
  Thomas Vincent Quinn of Jackson Heights, Queens was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1949 to 1951.-Career:* Fordham University Law School, graduated 1924* Assistant District Attorney, Queens County, NY, 1931-1934....
  
   (interim): 1945-46
• J. Vincent Keogh: 1946 - 1950
• Frank J. Parker: 1950 - 1953
• Leonard P. Moore
  Leonard P. Moore
  Leonard Page Moore was a federal appellate judge in the United States....
  
  : 1953 - 1957
• Cornelius W. Wickersham, Jr.: 1957 - 1961
• Elliot Kahaner (interim): 1961
• Joseph P. Hoey: 1961 - 1969
• Vincent T. McCarthy (interim): 1969
• Edward R. Neaher: 1969 - 1971
• Robert A. Morse: 1971 - 1973
• Edward J. Boyd (interim): 1973 - 1974
• David G. Trager
  David G. Trager
  David Gershon Trager was a United States federal judge.Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Trager received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1959 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1962. He was in private practice of law in New York City from 1963 to 1967, acting as assistant corporation counsel...
  
  : 1974 - 1978
• Edward R. Korman
  Edward R. Korman
  Edward R. Korman is a United States district judge serving on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on October 2, 1985, confirmed by the United States Senate on November 1, 1985, commissioned on November 4, 1985, and...
  
  : 1978 - 1982
• Raymond J. Dearie
  Raymond J. Dearie
  Raymond Joseph Dearie is a senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. He was nominated by President Reagan on February 3, 1986, to a new seat created by 98 Stat...
  
  : 1982 - 1986
• Reena Raggi
  Reena Raggi
  Reena Raggi is federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She was formerly a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York....
  
   (interim): 1986
• Andrew J. Maloney: 1986 - 1992
• Mary Jo White
  Mary Jo White
  Mary Jo White was the first woman to be U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002.White was born in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in McLean, Virginia. She received her B.S...
  
   (interim): 1992 - 1993
• Zachary W. Carter: 1993 - 1999
• Loretta E. Lynch
  Loretta E. Lynch
  Loretta E. Lynch is the current United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She has held this position since 2010. She previously held this position from 1999-2001. During her first term as US Attorney Lynch oversaw prosecution of the New York police officers in the Abner Louima...
  
  : 1999 - 2001
• Alan Vinegrad
  Alan Vinegrad
  Alan Vinegrad is a New York City lawyer who served as interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 2001 to 2002.Vinegrad is a partner in the New York Office of the law firm of Covington & Burling...
  
   (interim): 2001 - 2002
• Roslynn Renee Mauskopf
  Roslynn Renee Mauskopf
  Roslynn Renee Mauskopf is a United States district judge serving on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She was nominated by President George W. Bush on January 9, 2007 to a seat vacated by David G...
  
  : 2002 - 2007
• Benton J. Campbell
  Benton J. Campbell
  Benton J. Campbell was United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 2007-2010.Campbell was raised in Iowa. He did his undergraduate studies at Yale University and then attneded the University of Chicago Law School.-Sources:*...
  
  : 2007 - 2010
• Loretta E. Lynch
  Loretta E. Lynch
  Loretta E. Lynch is the current United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She has held this position since 2010. She previously held this position from 1999-2001. During her first term as US Attorney Lynch oversaw prosecution of the New York police officers in the Abner Louima...
  
  : 2010 - incumbent

External links

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