Matthew R. Molsen

Acting United States Attorney Matthew R. Molsen is a career prosecutor who began with the Department of Justice in the United States Attorney’s Office in June 2014.  Mr.  Molsen has worked in both the Drug Enforcement Unit and the General Criminal Unit prosecuting a wide variety of cases. He became the Lincoln Branch Chief in July 2023, and served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney from February 2024 to February 2025. Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office, Mr. Molsen worked for the Hall County Attorney’s Office as a Deputy County Attorney from March 2004 to April 2014. Between April 2008 to June 2014, Mr. Molsen served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney working in the Drug Enforcement Unit prosecuting cases focused primarily on drug trafficking organizations operating in central Nebraska and oversaw several investigations designed by the Department of Justice as Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces cases. 

As the chief federal law enforcement officer in the District of Nebraska, Molsen oversees all federal criminal prosecutions and civil litigation on behalf of the U.S. Government.  The district has a Branch Office in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Molsen received his BA in Economics and Finance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2000 and his J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 2003.