Former U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan

Bridget M. Brennan 

Former U.S. Attorney

Bridget Brennan is the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.In this position, Ms. Brennan leads a staff of nearly 200 employeesrepresenting the United States in courts throughout Ohio’s northern40 counties, including staffed offices in Cleveland, Akron, Toledo andYoungstown.

Ms. Brennan first joined the United States Attorney's Office in 2007as an Assistant United States Attorney. During her time at the U.S.Attorney’s Office, Ms. Brennan has been involved in a number ofnotable prosecutions, including the following: 24 individualssuccessfully convicted for their roles in bringing about the collapse ofthe St. Paul Croatian Federal Credit Union, the single largest creditunion failure in U.S. history; a sixteen-defendant civil rightsprosecution that, for the first time, charged religiously-motivatedassaults under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate CrimesPrevention Act; a more than $30 million dollar Ponzi scheme thatpurported to guarantee returns from short sale opportunities in the futures market; the arson of the IslamicCenter of Greater Toledo, the Toledo area’s largest mosque; and numerous juvenile sex traffickingprosecutions, one of which resulted in the first reported decision recognizing opioid withdrawal as a meansof coercion and another which represented the District’s first prosecution of a “customer” after the 2015amendments to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.

Throughout her career, Ms. Brennan has held both line assistant and supervisory positions, including Chiefof the Civil Rights Unit, Chief of the Criminal Division, and First Assistant U.S. Attorney. In addition, Ms.Brennan served as the U. S. Attorney’s Office Ethics Advisor. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, sheworked as a litigation associate for a Cleveland-area law firm.

Ms. Brennan was appointed to the Northern District of Ohio’s Advisory Committee by Judge Dan AaronPolster and serves as Co-Chair of its Subcommittee on Criminal Rules. She earned her B.A. from JohnCarroll University and her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

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