David M. Toepfer

David M. Toepfer is the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. He was Senate confirmed in October 2025 after being appointed to the position in July 2025.

A career prosecutor of nearly three decades, Mr. Toepfer joined the Northern District of Ohio in 2008 as an Assistant United States Attorney based in the Youngstown office. He has served in a variety of leadership roles with the office, and most recently served as branch chief for both Youngstown and Akron. In this role, he supervised branch attorneys and served as a liaison between federal and local law enforcement agencies to review and prepare cases for federal prosecution. In his 17 years with the office, he has prosecuted a wide range of federal criminal cases such as bank robberies, firearms offenses, fraud, narcotics, and export-controlled technology. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he served for nine years as an assistant prosecuting attorney in Trumbull County, Ohio, conducting jury trials in common pleas court for all felonies including death penalty cases, murder, and violent offenses, and coordinating investigations involving numerous local police agencies. He also served two years as an assistant prosecuting attorney in Portage County where he conducted felony and misdemeanor trials in juvenile and municipal courts. Mr. Toepfer has dedicated his career to focusing on the prosecution of the most violent offenders, dismantling interstate drug trafficking organizations, and enforcing federal immigration laws.

The Warren native has also been the recipient of numerous awards. Most notably, in 2010 he was nationally recognized with the Director’s Award from the Department of Justice for leading the Violence and Gun Reduction Interdiction Program in Youngstown and Warren, Ohio. The program was a federal, state, and local initiative that successfully targeted violent offenders who illegally used and possessed firearms.

Mr. Toepfer is a magna cum laude graduate from Youngstown State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree, majoring in accounting. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Akron School of Law.

Mr. Toepfer’s appointment marks the first time in more than 117 years that a Youngstown-area lawyer will serve as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.