El Fiscal Federal
Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting U.S. Attorney
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Jeffrey H. Sloman was appointed Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida on June 6, 2009, pursuant to the Vacancy Reform Act. The Southern District comprises 15,197 square miles and extends along more than 300 miles of coastline from Key West in the South to Vero Beach in the North. The District has approximately six million inhabitants and covers nine separate counties: Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, Okeechobee, and Highlands. The District is home to a number of federal enclaves, including the Homestead Air Reserve Base, the Miccosukee Indian Reservation, the Everglades National Park, and the U.S. Southern Command, Department of Defense. In addition to more than twenty federal law enforcement agencies, there are approximately 120 state and local police agencies within the Southern District of Florida. As the Acting United States Attorney, Mr. Sloman is the chief federal law enforcement officer for the District.
From October 2006 to his appointment as Acting United States Attorney, Mr. Sloman served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney to then U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta. As First Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Sloman supervised the daily legal and administrative operations of the Office, including more than 280 attorneys and 225 support personnel in the civil, criminal, appellate, and administrative divisions. During his tenure at the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Sloman has served as Chief of the District's Criminal Division (2004-2006), Chief of the Fort Lauderdale Branch Office (2003-2004), and Deputy Chief of the Fort Lauderdale Narcotics and Violent Crimes Section (2000-2002).
Mr. Sloman first joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in August 1990, after practicing commercial litigation for nearly six years with the Miami law firm of Kimbrell & Hamann, P.A. As a line Assistant U.S. Attorney, he prosecuted numerous high profile criminal matters involving narcotics trafficking, economic crimes, organized crime, and international terrorism. He is the recipient of two Department of Justice Awards for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney.
Mr. Sloman graduated from the University of Florida in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in political science and in 1983 from the University of Miami School of Law.