Eric Grant

Mr. Grant was appointed by Attorney General Pam Bondi to serve as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California beginning on August 11, 2025.  He is a veteran of the Department of Justice, having served twice in Washington, D.C.:  from 1991 to 1993 as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel, and from 2017 to 2021 as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD).  During his tenure at ENRD, Mr. Grant supervised more than a hundred Department litigators advancing the interests of the United States and its agencies in both enforcement and defensive matters, both civil and criminal.

In addition to his service in the Department, Mr. Grant has decades of experience in private practice in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento.  That experience includes arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and numerous other federal and state courts.

Mr. Grant served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger (retired) and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas during the Supreme Court’s October 1994 Term.  Earlier he served as a law clerk to Judge Edith H. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Houston, Texas.

Mr. Grant grew up in Modesto, California and raised his family in Sacramento County.  He attended the University of California, Berkeley, from which he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics (1986) and a law degree (1990).