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Department of Justice Acting United States Attorney Candace G. Hill Contact: Dawn Masden |
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August 28, 2009
CANDACE G. HILL SWORN IN AS INTERIM UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY
This is to announce that in Louisville on Wednesday, August 26, 2009, CANDACE G. HILL was appointed the interim United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky by United States Attorney General Eric Holder. She was sworn in today by Charles R. Simpson, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, in his chambers before employees of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and U.S. District Court. Hill replaces David Huber, who retired January 31, 2009. Hill has been serving as “Acting” United States Attorney since that time.
Ms. Hill began working in the U. S. Attorney’s Office in 1991 as a criminal prosecutor, primarily on financial and violent crime cases. In 1997, she became the chief of the civil division of the office. From late 2001 until January 2004, she worked as an appellate attorney, and litigated civil and criminal cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In January 2004, she became First Assistant to then-United States Attorney David Huber.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Kentucky University, and during the course of her 9-year career as a high school language teacher, earned her Master of Arts degree from the University of Louisville. She entered law school and graduated in 1985 from the University of Louisville School of Law. She worked for three years in a large private law firm and clerked for three years for United States District Judge Charles R. Simpson, before becoming an Assistant United States Attorney.
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