United States Attorney
McGregor W. Scott
McGregor Scott was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate to be the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California in 2003.
United States Attorneys are part of the Department of Justice and one U.S. Attorney is assigned to each judicial district. The Eastern District is comprised of 34 of California’s 58 counties and stretches from Bakersfield in the south to the Oregon border in the north. Nearly seven million people live in the Eastern District, making it the eighth most populous district in the nation. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California employs 75 lawyers who represent the federal government in both criminal and civil matters in the federal courts in Sacramento and Fresno.
McGregor Scott is a graduate of Santa Clara University (1985) and the University of California
Hastings College of Law (1989). Prior to becoming United States Attorney, he served as a Deputy District Attorney in Contra Costa County (CA) from 1989 to 1997 where he had a vast array of
prosecutorial experience including gang murder trials. Mr. Scott then served as the District Attorney of Shasta County (CA) from 1997 to 2003, where he was elected twice without opposition. In that
position, he led an office of approximately 25 lawyers and 150 support staff and was responsible for issues ranging from the collection of child support to death penalty cases.
Mr. Scott served as a member of the United States Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, which provides counsel to the Attorney General on Department of Justice issues on behalf of the United States Attorneys, from 2004 to 2006. He now chairs the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Committee for the United States Attorneys and is a member of committees on Native American Issues and Violent Crime. He previously served as chair of the Controlled Substances Committee and the United States Attorneys’ Methamphetamine Working Group.
Mr. Scott was born in Mountain View, California and raised in Eureka, California. He is married to fellow attorney Jennifer Urbanski Scott and is the proud father of three young boys. His hobbies are reading (history & biography), golf, exercising, college football and basketball, and hunting.
He is a Past Chairman of the California District Attorneys’ Association Rural Counties Committee and a past member of the California District Attorneys’ Association Board of Directors.
Mr. Scott is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserve with 22 years service as an infantry officer. He commanded an infantry company on the streets of Los Angeles during riot duty in 1992, and is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College.