Meet the U.S. Attorney

Theodore S. Hertzberg is the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. As the district’s chief federal law enforcement officer, Mr. Hertzberg leads an office of approximately 175 prosecutors, civil litigators, and non-attorney personnel in its mission to enforce federal criminal laws, advocate for crime victims, and represent the interests of the United States in federal court.

Mr. Hertzberg began his decade-long tenure as federal prosecutor in the Savannah headquarters of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia. In Savannah, Mr. Hertzberg prosecuted violent criminals, drug dealers, fraudsters, and money launderers while also serving as chief of the asset forfeiture section. Upon relocating to Atlanta in 2018, Mr. Hertzberg transferred to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, where he prosecuted gang leaders, child sex predators, gun traffickers, armed felons, and other dangerous offenders until his appointment as U.S. Attorney.

Before joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Hertzberg practiced law in the New York office of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, and he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kristi K. DuBose of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.

U.S. Attorney Hertzberg is a graduate of Amherst College and New York University School of Law.