United States Attorney Richard B. Roper
1100 Commerce Street, Third Floor
Dallas, Texas 75242
Richard B. Roper has served four presidents and seven attorneys general in leadership and trial attorney positions in the Department of Justice. Since 2004, Mr. Roper has served as the presidentially-appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, leading four, fully staffed offices with 202 employees, including 94 attorneys, spanning 100 counties and approximately 95,000 square miles.
As United States Attorney, Mr. Roper has directed some of the most high-profile and successful prosecutions in the country, including cases targeting international terrorism financing and exportation of sensitive technologies, public corruption, insider trading, tax, securities, mortgage, corporate, and health care fraud, human-trafficking and international drug trafficking. Mr. Roper currently serves on six Attorney General Advisory committees: White-Collar Fraud, Cyber/Intellectual Property, Controlled Substances, Office of Management and Budget, Violent and Organized Crime, and Child Exploitation and Obscenity. He has also served as the Co-Chair of the Department of Justice, Internet Pharmacy Working Group. He is a
member of the North Texas High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force (Chair 2006), Co-Chair of the Fort Worth Neighborhood Policing Board, and a member of the board of directors for the Southwest Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory. He is a member of the Fort Worth area Safe Cities Crime Commission and the North Texas Crime Commission. He also serves on the advisory boards for the following organizations: Fort Worth Safe Cities Commission; Southside Fort Worth Weed and Seed, South Dallas Weed and Seed, Pleasant Grove Weed and Seed, Ferguson Road Weed and Seed, West Dallas Weed and Seed, Two-Points Weed and Seed, and the Grand Prairie Weed and Seed.
During his over 25-year career, he has prosecuted over 150 jury trials involving a broad range of matters from white-collar crime to capital murder. He began his career as an Assistant District Attorney for Tarrant County, serving in the appellate, juvenile, misdemeanor, felony and civil trial sections, and later as a chief felony court prosecutor. In 1987, he was appointed an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. As an Assistant United States Attorney, he served in the Dallas and Fort Worth offices, handling major white-collar, tax, bank, and health-care fraud, narcotics and money laundering matters. He successfully prosecuted two federal death penalty jury trials as lead counsel. He served as the district Senior Litigation Counsel, District Professional Responsibility Officer, and the Fort Worth Branch Office supervisor. He also served as a national evaluator of other United States Attorney’s offices for the Executive Office of United States Attorneys, Evaluation and Review program.
Mr. Roper graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1979 and earned his law degree from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1982. Mr. Roper is certified as a criminal law specialist by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization (1987). Mr. Roper is also active in numerous professional organizations. He is a master of the Eldon B. Mahon Chapter of the American Inns of Court. He is a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. He has served on the State Bar of Texas/Texas Supreme Court, Committee to Revise the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct for Attorneys. He has also served on the Northern District of Texas United States Magistrate Judge Evaluation Committee.
He was recognized as the 2007 Distinguished Alumnus of the Texas Tech University School of Law. He was a recipient of the Dallas Genesis Women’s Shelter Jane Doe Award. He also received meritorious awards from numerous federal law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Postal Inspection Service, Internal Revenue Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Department of Defense. He has served on the faculty of the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C., the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, S.C., and as a lecturer for the Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Association of Attorneys General, and the Texas District and County Attorney's Association.