Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. Appointed Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan

DETROIT – United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has appointed Assistant United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. to serve as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Today, he was formally sworn in by Chief United States District Court Judge Sean F. Cox.

As U. S. Attorney, Gorgon will serve as the chief federal law enforcement officer representing the United States in all federal criminal and civil litigation in the Eastern District of Michigan, which serves 6.5 million people. He leads a staff of approximately 190 prosecutors, civil litigators, and support personnel.

Gorgon has been a federal prosecutor in Detroit for 15 years, prosecuting terrorism, violent crime, sex trafficking, carjacking, and immigration cases. He was born in southwest Detroit, is a graduate of Southwestern High School, and continues to call Detroit home. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he returned to teach elementary science in the Detroit Public Schools. After Gorgon graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, he clerked for the Honorable Anna Diggs Taylor, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and the Honorable Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. After becoming a partner at Honigman LLP, he returned to public service at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit.