Famous Prosecutors

Marcia Rachel Clark, née Kleks, formerly Horowitz, was born August 31, 1953. She is an American prosecutor, author, television correspondent, and television producer. She became the lead prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson murder case.

John Kerry was born December 11, 1943, in Aurora, Colorado. He is a notable figure in American politics. Kerry served as a military officer during the Vietnam War. He held various political roles later on. His early public service shaped his views, leading him to commit to diplomacy and peace. After Yale University, Kerry joined the United States Navy and served two tours. He earned multiple awards for bravery, including the Sil.

Andrew Jackson lived from March 15, 1767, to June 8, 1845. He was an American soldier and statesman. Jackson served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before the presidency, Jackson became a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress. As president, Jackson pushed for the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to keep the Union intact. Jackson was born in the colonial Carolinas to a Scotch-Irish family before the American Revolutionary War. He became a frontier lawyer and married Rachel Donelson R.

Susana Martinez, born July 14, 1959, is an American politician. She served as a district attorney and attorney. Martinez became the 31st governor of New Mexico, holding office from 2011 to 2019. A Republican, she chaired the Republican Governors Association (RGA) from 2015 to 2016. Martinez became the first female Governor of New Mexico. She was also the first Hispanic female state chief executive in the United States. Martinez graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. She became a licensed attorney after admission to the State Bar of New Mexico. Martinez started her prosecuting career in 1986 as an Assistant District Attorney.

Robert Houghwout Jackson lived from February 13, 1892, to October 9, 1954. He was an American attorney and judge. Jackson served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Jackson previously served as United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General; he is the only person to hold all three offices. Jackson also worked as the Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals after World War II. Jackson entered the bar by studying law with an established attorney and attending law school.

Brian Edward Sandoval, born August 5, 1963, is an American businessman, former attorney, and politician. He served as the 29th Governor of Nevada from 2011 to 2019. Sandoval was a Republican Party member. He served as a former United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. On June 9, 2010, he defeated incumbent Governor Jim Gibbons to win the Republican nomination for the 2010 gubernatorial election. Before becoming a federal judge, he served as the 30th Attorney General of Nevada and the youngest chairman of the Gaming Commission of Nevada.

Rod Blagojevich, born December 10, 1956, was an American former politician. He served as Illinois's 40th Governor from 2003 until his impeachment, conviction, and removal in 2009. Blagojevich was a Democrat. Before that, he served as a state representative and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing parts of Chicago. Blagojevich won the governorship in 2002. This made him the first Democrat to win the office since Dan Walker won 30 years prior. He won reelection in 2006. Blagojevich was impeached and removed from office for corruption; he solicited bribes for political appointments.

Jeanine Pirro is an American actress. She appeared in "God's Not Dead: We the People" and "You the Jury."

August William Ritter, born September 6, 1956, was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 41st Governor of Colorado from 2007 to 2011. Ritter was a member of the Democratic Party. He served as the district attorney for Denver before his election in 2006. Ritter became the first native-born person elected Governor of Colorado since 1975. He was also the first Democratic officeholder in 50 years to serve with a Democratic majority in the Colorado General Assembly. Ritter did not seek a second term in 2010; he announced he would not run due to family reasons.

Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, lived from February 4, 1902, to July 10, 2003. From 1945 to 1959, he was known as Sir Hartley Shawcross. He was a British barrister and politician. He served as the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal. Shawcross also served as Britain's principal delegate to the United Nations right after World War II.

Benjamin Berell Ferencz, born March 11, 1920, is a Hungarian-born American lawyer. He investigated Nazi war crimes after World War II. Ferencz was the Chief Prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the twelve military trials held by U.S. authorities at Nuremberg, Germany. Later, he became an advocate for an international rule of law and an International Criminal Court. From 1985 to 1996, he taught International Law as an Adjunct Professor at Pace University.

Roman Andriyovych Rudenko (Ukrainian: Роман Андрійович Руденко, Russian: Рома́н Андре́евич Руде́нко) lived from July 30, 1907, to January 23, 1981. He was a Ukrainian Soviet lawyer. Rudenko served as Procurator-General of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1944 to 1953. After 1953, he became Procurator-General of the entire Soviet Union. Internationally, Rudenko gained fame as the chief prosecutor for the USSR at the 1946 trial of major Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg. He also acted as chief prosecutor at the "Trial of the Sixteen" (Polish Underground leaders) in Moscow the year prior.

James Edward Doyle Jr. (born November 23, 1945) is an American lawyer, politician, and Democratic Party member. Doyle served as the 44th Governor of Wisconsin, holding office from January 6, 2003, to January 3, 2011. In his first gubernatorial election, Doyle beat incumbent Governor Scott McCallum with a 45 percent to 41 percent margin; the Libertarian Party candidate Ed Thompson got 10 percent of the vote. Although Democrats gained more governorships in 2002, Doyle was the only one to unseat a sitting Republican governor. Doyle also worked as Wisconsin’s Attorney.

Larry J. Echo Hawk, born August 2, 1948, is an attorney, legal scholar, and politician. On May 20, 2009, Echo Hawk joined President Barack Obama's administration as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs. He held the elected Attorney General position for Idaho from 1991 to 1995, becoming the first Native American elected to that role. Echo Hawk also served two terms in the Idaho State House. In 2012, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints named him a general authority.

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Norton Parker Chipman (March 7, 1834 – February 1, 1924) was an American Civil War army officer, military prosecutor, politician, author, and judge.

Anthony Scully Earl (born April 12, 1936) is an American politician and Democratic Party member. Earl served as the 41st Governor of Wisconsin from 1983 until 1987. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1958 and earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago. Earl spent four years in the Navy, including two years as a legal officer, before moving to Wisconsin in 1965.

Fredrik "Fred" Teeven (born August 5, 1958) is a retired Dutch politician from the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and a jurist. Teeven served as a Member of the House of Representatives and Parliamentary leader of the Livable Netherlands party in the House of Representatives from May 23, 2002, until January 30, 2003. In 2003, Teeven rejoined the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. After the 2006 general election, he served again as a Member of the House of Representatives from November 30, 2006, until October 14, 2010, when he became State Secretary for Security and Justice in the Cabinet of Rut

Francisco Javier Martínez de Zaldúa y Racines, a Colombian lawyer and politician, became President of Colombia in 1882.

Fritz Bauer (July 16, 1903 – July 1, 1968) was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He played a key role in starting the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.

Mitchell R. "Mitch" Morrissey is the elected District Attorney for Colorado's Second Judicial District in Denver, Colorado. A Democrat, Morrissey won election in November 2004 and took office January 11, 2005. As Denver's chief prosecutor, he prosecutes over 6,000 felony and 18,000 misdemeanor criminal cases annually. Before election, Mitch Morrissey worked in the Denver District Attorney’s Office for twenty years; he served as chief deputy district attorney ten of those years. The 2011 "Individu" named Morrissey.

Frank Michael Kratovil Jr. (born May 29, 1968) is an American politician. He served as the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district from 2009 to 2011. Kratovil ran for reelection in 2008 but lost on November 2, 2010. Kratovil belongs to the Democratic Party. He previously served as State's Attorney of Queen Anne's County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Governor Martin O'Malley appointed him a judge for the county's District Court in December 2011.

Michael J. Zalewski is in the Illinois General Assembly. He represents the 23rd District in the western and southwestern suburbs of Cook County. His father is Michael R. Zalewski, a former Chicago city alderman.

Sean Patrick Duffy (born October 3, 1971) is an American politician, prosecutor, sports commentator, and reality television personality. Duffy first entered public life as a cast member on *The Real World: Boston* (1998), *Road Rules: All Stars* (2002), and *Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons* (2002). He later served as the district attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin, and the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 7th congressional district. Duffy is a member of the Republican Party and backed Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid. On August 26, 2019, Duffy announced he would res

William John "Bill" Hughes (born October 17, 1932) was a Democratic Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1995. Hughes represented New Jersey's Second Congressional District, which covers parts of the Jersey Shore, Pine Barrens, Vineland, Atlantic City, and Salem, Cumberland, Atlantic, Cape May, and part of Gloucester counties. After leaving Congress in 1995, President Bill Clinton appointed Hughes as United States Ambassador to Panama. Hughes held that post until October 1998, leading up to the Panama Canal's historic turnover.

Robert "Bob" Fellmeth holds a tenured Law Professor position at the University of San Diego School of Law. He holds the Price Chair in Public Interest Law. Fellmeth also directs the Center for Public Interest Law and the Children's Advocacy Institute.

Raymond de Roon, born September 1, 1952 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch politician and former prosecutor. He joined the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid) and became an MP on November 30, 2006. De Roon focuses on foreign policy, military operations, and the European Union. De Roon finished third on the party list in the 2006 general elections and fourth in the 2010 general elections.

Nicholas Louis "Nick" Bissell Jr., born January 14, 1947, and died November 27, 1996, served as the county prosecutor for Somerset County, New Jersey. He fled to Laughlin, Nevada, and took his own life after facing charges for embezzlement, tax fraud, and abuse of power.

Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Abdul Gani bin Patail, born October 6, 1955, is a Malaysian prosecutor. He served as the Attorney General of Malaysia from 2002 to 2015, becoming the first from Sabah to hold the post. He hails from Lahad Datu and was born in the Lahad Datu district. Abdul Gani led the prosecution in former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's 1998 sodomy trial.

Dietrich Snell is a Partner in the Litigation Department and deputy head of the Corporate Defense & Investigations Group at Proskauer Rose LLP. This international law firm has over 700 lawyers globally. Snell was a former New York Deputy Attorney General and served as Senior Counsel to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, the 9/11 Commission.

Janusz Kazimierz Kaczmarek, born December 25, 1961 in Gdynia, is a Polish lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. Kaczmarek was the National Public Prosecutor from October 31, 2005, to February 8, 2007. He served as the Polish Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration from February 8, 2007, to August 8, 2007. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Gdańsk University. Kaczmarek's term as interior minister in Jarosław Kaczyński's cabinet ended when he was dismissed over accusations of warning Andrzej Lepper about an impending Central Anticorruption Bureau action.

Theresa B. "Huck" Two Bulls, born October 23, 1949, in Oglala Sioux, is an attorney, prosecutor, and politician in the United States and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Two Bulls was elected as a Democratic member of the South Dakota Senate representing the 27th district in 2004, becoming the first American Indian woman elected to the state legislature. She served until 2008. That year, Two Bulls won the presidency of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, the second woman to hold that role. She served one two-year term.

Edward Mower Norton, Jr. is a lawyer.

David Adam Smith, born June 15, 1965, is an American politician. He currently serves as the U.S. Representative for Washington's 9th congressional district. Smith is a Democrat. He previously served in the Washington State Senate. Smith graduated from the University of Washington School of Law. Smith briefly worked as a prosecutor and pro term judge for Seattle before entering politics. Smith won the State Senate seat in 1990. At 25, he became the youngest State Senator in the country. Smith ran for and won his first congressional race in 1996. He has been reelected 11 times. In 2019,

Mohammad Reza Rahimi (Persian: محمدرضا رحيمی‎, born January 11, 1949) is an Iranian politician. He served as first vice president from September 13, 2009, to August 3, 2013. Before that, he held the post of governor of the Kurdistan province and vice president for parliamentary affairs. On February 15, 2015, a court convicted Rahimi of corruption. He currently sits in Evin Prison. Allegedly, Rahimi headed the "Fatemi Circle".

Kathleen Falk, born June 26, 1951, is an American attorney, politician, and policymaker from Wisconsin. Falk served as Dane County Executive from 1997 until 2011. In 2013, she was appointed Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Region Five. Falk is a Democrat. Falk unsuccessfully sought the party's nomination for Governor of Wisconsin in 2002 and the 2012 recall election. In 2006, Falk defeated Democratic Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager to win the party's nomination for Attorney General, but Republican J. B. Van Hollen won the general election.

William Hiram Brawley, reported incorrectly as William Huggins Brawley, lived from May 13, 1841, to November 15, 1916. Brawley was a United States Representative from South Carolina. He later became a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.

Floyd Prozanski, born in 1954, is an American Democratic politician. Prozanski currently serves on the Oregon State Senate, representing the 4th District since 2004. Prozanski previously served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1995 through 2000 and again for the 2003 session. He resigned from the House in December 2003 to accept the Senate seat vacated by Tony Corcoran. Prozanski won the seat election in November 2004.

Darren R. Levine, born April 3, 1960, in Los Angeles, California, United States, is a martial artist, an entrepreneur, and a prosecutor for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. Levine helped popularize Krav Maga, the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israel Defense Forces.

Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez, born December 11, 1958, is a Spanish politician and former Minister of Justice. He served as Madrid mayor from 2003 to 2011. Ruiz-Gallardón stayed with the conservative People's Party (PP). He held a leading role in local and national legislative bodies. In December 2011, Mariano Rajoy appointed Ruiz-Gallardón Minister of Justice. He resigned in September 2014.

Aleksandar Pavlov Malinov (Bulgarian: Александър Павлов Малинов), born May 3, 1867, died March 20, 1938, was a major Bulgarian politician. Malinov served as Prime Minister three times. He was born in Pandakli, Bessarabia (now Orihivka, Ukraine), to a family of Bessarabian Bulgarians. Malinov favored close ties with Russia, pursuing this policy during his first ministry, 1908-1911. Malinov moved toward liberalism. He led a modest tenure, focusing on stabilizing the new independent country. He strongly opposed [the opposing view].

Careen M. Gordon was a former Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives. She represented the 75th district. Gordon served from her appointment in December 2003 until she left office in January 2011.

Damian John Bugg, a barrister, served as the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions from 1999 to 2007. Before that, he was the Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions from July 1986 to 1999. In 2005, the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) honored Bugg for his work in law. Bugg acted as Chancellor of the University of Tasmania from 2006 to 2012.

Joaquim Benedito Barbosa Gomes (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒoɐˈkĩ bẽneˈdʒitu bɐʁˈbɔzɐ ˈɡõmis]), born October 7, 1954, was a former Justice of the Supreme Federal Court in Brazil. Barbosa served as the court president (Chief Justice) from 2012 to 2014. Barbosa studied law at the University of Brasília in 1979. He earned a master's degree in 1990 and a doctorate in 1993 from Panthéon-Assas University. Hebrew University gave him Doctor Honoris Causa in 2015. *Time* magazine elected him one of the 100 most influential people globally in 2013.

Laura Codruța Kövesi (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈla.ura koˈdrut͡sa ˈkøveʃi]), born Laura Codruța Lascu on May 15, 1973, was the chief prosecutor for Romania's National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) from 2013 until Justice Minister Tudorel Toader fired her on July 9, 2018. Before that, Kövesi was the Prosecutor General of Romania (Procuror General), attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice. Kövesi became the first woman and the youngest Prosecutor General in Romania in 2006.

Glen Zipper produced and wrote "Off the Rails," "Zappa," and "The Blue Angels."

JoAnne Kloppenburg, born September 5, 1953, judges the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in District 4. She previously served as an assistant attorney general in the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Kloppenburg ran for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2011 and 2016.

Alison Saunders, CB, is a British barrister and the Director of Public Prosecutions. She is the first lawyer from within the Crown Prosecution Service and the second woman to hold this post. She was also the first person not to be a Queen's Counsel. She previously led as the Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS London.