Trump Appoints Acting US Attorney for the District of Minnesota

Joseph H. Thompson has been appointed by President Trump to serve as the Acting United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota.

Thompson served as a federal prosecutor for sixteen years, first in the Northern District of Illinois and since 2014 in the District of Minnesota. Thompson was born and raised in Minnesota, and has earned degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College and from Stanford Law School.

Thompson taught an advanced criminal law course at the University of Minnesota Law school and has tried more than twenty jury trials in every major area of federal prosecution. He says he is “honored and humbled to be asked to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota”.